There are literally hundreds of crystals of lustrous quenselite to 2+ mm
across scattered about the display face of this specimen together with
barite on
calcite.
Quenselite was found only in the Amerika workings at the 185 meter level.
These specimens consists primarily of
hausmannite included calcite with a surface layer of colourless
barite as
1 mm crystals and jet black, lustrous crystals of quenselite to about 1 mm
also.
Origin: Långban, Sweden
Harry von Eckermann Collection
Sample size: 9.2 x 7 x 3 cm (top/2nd row), 5 x 4 x 1.8 cm (3rd row), 3.3 x 2.1
x 1.28 cm (4th/5th row), 3.7 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm (6th row), 7 x 6 x 4 cm (7th row),
5 x 4.9 x 4.7 cm (8th row), 7 x 4 x 3 cm (9th row), 6 x 5 x 3.5 cm (bottom)
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