Arsenopyrite

Mitterberg District, St Johann im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria 

This is a fantastic arsenopyrite specimen with a large, 3 cm long!! crystal with shiny faces, in talc matrix. As the crystals was embedded in talc matrix it has some chippings/damage, but rather on the backside. A very good quality, classic austrian specimen

The specimen size 8.5cm x 3.2cm x 2.4cm 

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I’m a professional geologist/mineralogist, with analytical background. Many of my minerals were checked by x-ray diffraction and energy dispersive spectrometry. Some of my specimens comes with the documentation of the analysises.

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