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This is a sweet specimen! The siderite crystal hosts pyrite crystals and sparkling clear quartz crystals. The crystals of all three minerals are sharp and lustrous, and the large pyrite is perched up on its own – very striking. In excellent condition, no damage and the only point of contact is underneath the right-hand side. This specimen looks best when vertical as photographed – it rests that way with only a small prop, it’s easy to stand in this orientation. A beautiful classic combination of these minerals from France.

About These Specimens from the Mésage Mine

The Mésage Mine was originally explored in the early-nineteenth century for iron, and the underground workings have been abandoned since the late-nineteenth century. French collector Grégoire de Bodinat recently collected these beautiful specimens at the Mésage Mine.