The highlight of this specimen is the unusual, tapering tessin-style, 9.5 cm-tall , lustrous and translucent quartz crystal with chlorite inclusions. The inclusions color it a grayish green . The rest of the specimen is composed of a druse of calcite and several, splendent, brassy yellow crystals of chalcopyrite. An unusual combo for the locality

I love chalcopyrites, a species that I think many people really just ignore sometimes. But this superb, competition-level miniature, is hard to put out of mind once you see it. It is the most mesmerizing example in its size class I have seen for a chalcopyrite, and just glows with color and brilliant lustre. It is as close to pristine as you can ask, especially in a soft species. Probably from older finds in the 1980s or early 90s, as I have simply not seen anything approaching this quality in recent production here. The piece is complete all around, with the crystals perched on and hanging over a thin shard of glittery matrix, covered with minute sparkling pyrite crystals. This is a competition-level miniature worthy of any major collection, despite its "common species."