Group of very clear Gypsum crystals with perfectly defined faces and edges, very sharp terminations with "swallowtail" twinning, between transparent and translucent, on a matrix of ferruginous rock. Comes from a well-known deposit, the Dificultad Mine in La Unión.
The specimen belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent Spanish collection.
La Dificultad Mine, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain
Specimen size: 8 × 6.6 × 4.8 cm = 3.15” × 2.60” × 1.89”
Main crystal size: 4 × 1.8 cm = 1.57” × 0.71”
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