CHALCOPYRITE and GUSTAVITE-LILLIANITE SERIES on QUARTZ and PYRITE
Pedro Claim, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA

Specimen is approximately 20 cm wide x 15 cm tall

This outstanding specimen exhibits large twinned iridescent chalcopyrite crystals with possibly the largest crystal of gustavite-lillianite series (the elongated earthy gray crystal in the center of the cluster) on a bed of quartz crystals with associated pyrite.


Photograph courtesy of Stuart Wilensky of Wilensky Exquisite Minerals