Pyromorphite

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A fine small cabinet Pyromorphite from the now-famous Daoping lead mine in Southern China. This is a superb small cabinet piece composed of dozens of super lustrous bright apple-green hexagonal prisms averaging nearly 1 cm in length with amazing color saturation. All of the crystals are lightly striated and the tips on many show barely discernible hoppered growth and some exhibit slight curvature of the prisms. It is pristine all over the display face with only minimal contacting at the periphery. The matrix is multicolored white with light brown representing anhedral Baryte that is lightly iron-stained in places and then sprinkled with small green Pyromorphite crystals. It is excellent for the size and style and a survivor from the early 2000s finds here (this style, was probably 2002-ish, as we called it the "Les Farge style" as it looked like old French specimens). Southern China’s Daoping-Yangshuo orebody has produced some of the world’s finest Pyromorphite crystals for nearly twenty-five years and there have been very few new finds. From the long held Chinese stash of Steve Smale. Superb luster and color, and a tight and dramatic pocket style make this memorable.