Description
Beautiful floating proustite crystal in a blood-red metallic color.
Proustite from the Freiberg mining district in Germany.
Specimen discovered in the 19th century, some minor breaks but an excellent piece of this particularly sought-after mineral species, one of two “red silver”. Proustite is a silver sulfide.
Video of this proustite from Freiberg, Germany:
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