Zinkenite - Saint-Pons, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Zinkenite

Help improve this record

No owner is registered for this specimen yet. If it's yours or you know more about it, you can add the owner, provenance, publications and other details.

This superbly crystallised Zinkenite is from the Saint-Pons outcrops, Barcelonnette, in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, an area hosting two mineralised outcrops containing thirty identified mineral species. Several sulphosalts are found in the area, one of which is the copper-lead sulphosalt Zinkenite. This largish miniature has one face entirely encrusted with bright, bluish-black metallic Zinkenite crystals which range from tabular to acicular, with many crystals displaying a variety of iridescent peacock colours. A first class compact example from this fascinating French locality.