Description
Tochilinite, named after Mitrofan Stepanovich Tochilin, a Russian mineralogist, is an iron-magnesium silicate.
Here, the crystals are combined with fine realgar and orpiment crystals.
Very colorful!
Beautiful under a binocular loupe.
Minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn valley, Valais, Switzerland.
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