Detailed information
Dimensions
88 x 49 x 20
mm
Locality
Himmelsfürst Mine Freiberg District, Erzgebirge Saxony, Germany
Condition
No recorded repairs
A superb very rich specimen of the rare Sulphosalt Freieslebenite formed excellent metallic grey deeply striated crystals measuring to 4-5mm many of them highly twinned, from the type locality. Associated with scattered rounded crystals of Freibergite and Galena, rare areas of Pyrargyrite and a single prismatic crystal has formed on the specimen measuring to 1-2mm. On pink bladed Calcite crystals on a light grey Schistous matrix, a fine rich specimen of Freieslebenite from the Himmelsf'rst Mine, Germany. The specimen has been strengthened on a small millimetre sizes area, this does not detract in any way from the specimen.