Tetrahedrite

  
Tetrahedrite with pyrite
Origin:  Daly-Judge Mine, Park City District (Unita District), Wasatch Mts, Summit Co., Utah, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.2 x 2 x 2.8 cm
 
  
Tetrahedrite with tiny bornite crystals
Origin: Colorado Springs Pocket, Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6.5 x 2 x 4.3 cm
 
Tetrahedrite with chalcopyrite
Origin: Casapalca, Huarochiri Province, Lima Department, Peru
Ex. Scott Williams collection
Sample size: 2.1 x 2.5 x 4.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  

A large, singe 1.3 cm crystal associated with several chaclcopyrite crystals, the largest to 6 mm and the rest are much smaller.
Origin: Cavnic, Maramures Co., Romania
Sample size: 9 x 9 x 6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
  
Large dominant silvery-bright twinned tetrahedrite crystals with numerous smaller battleship-gray tennantite crystals on a milky quartz matrix
Origin: Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
Ex. Bob Jones collection
Sample size: 5.0 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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