TLX96AP9: Twinned crystal of Chalcopyrite with the dominant forms of the trapezohedron, very sharp, lustrous and on a Quartz crystal with the typical La Gardette habit. Some crystals of Chalcopyrite from this locality, a minority, are yellow as they are not pseudomorphed by Malachite.
The specimen comes from the Gérard Forquet collection (number 903).
La Gardette Mine, La Gardette mining area, Villard-Notre-Dame, Le Bourg d'Oisans, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2 × 1.8 cm = 1.73” × 0.79” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.75” × 0.67”