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Description: Orpiment, Realgar, Quartz Locality: Nishinomaki Mine, Gunma Prefecture, Kanto region, Honshu Island, Japan (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 5.5 x 4.0 x 3.8 cm. A rich and very showy three-sided specimen of lustrous, golden orpiment and bright red realgar on a vuggy, quartz matrix from a classic, old-time Japanese locality - the Nishinomaki Mine on Honshu. The bright orpiment stringers really set this piece off.
Title: Orpiment-Realgar-Quartz-154641
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