Sperrylite

This is a spectacular display-quality piece with good aesthetics. The contrast of colors, between the brassy matrix of massive chalcopyrite and the mirror bright luster, and silver color of sperrylite, is spectacular. The skeletal sperrylite crystal is 9 mm across and it is very sharply crysatllized. Sperrylite is one of the world's great platinum minerals in crystalline form and specimens of quality, and of size, came only from a small deposit found here some years ago. Now, they are very scarce on the market.

Country Russia
Locality Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Norilsk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula
Dimensions 3,4x2,5x1,5 cm
Weight 15.7g