Description
Exceptional floating specimen showing a 16 mm black perfect sphalerite crystal, shiny with tiny chlorite crystals. It comes from excavation work on the Gotthard transit tunnel, in the Swiss canton of Uri, a spectacular 57 km-long structure that was the longest railway tunnel in the world when it opened. Magnificent and rare Alpine mineralogy! The best sphalerite specimen found in the Gotthard tunnel, from the mineral collection of Peter Amacher, the famous Swiss geologist. Video of this Sphalerite (blende) specimen from the Gotthard tunnel, Uri, Switzerland:
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