Excellent sample whose penetrating angles had been molded by the faces of another preexisting mineral, probably Quartz. Those surfaces, then, aren’t real geometrical forms of Bismuth, but the small scales, echeloning and striations coating the surfaces correspond to crystalline growths of the mineral. This specimen was photographed as a novelty at the 2009 Ste. Marie Show for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ page 22, number 383 and also in the ‘Mineral Up’ magazine, on page 29, number 2009/2 and in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 60 in the volume 14, number 3.
Laikeng Mine, Gan, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province China (2009)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 1.34”
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