PROUSTITE

Quality proustite is highly coveted by collectors everywhere, owing to its visually striking appearance and its nature as a silver-bearing mineral. This cabinet-size specimen comes from the famed Imiter Mine, and it's by far one of the richest specimens I've seen from Morocco. Featuring a large display face with essentially uninterrupted coverage, the crystals are bunched into rounded groupings that make the arrangement very three-dimensional. On the edges are larger crystals that measure to 6mm. Blood red flashes shimmer through some of the crystals, mixed in with others that have already been coated by silver that migrated to the surface. These newer finds helped make the species more accessible to collectors for a lower cost as compared to their classic counterparts in Chile and central Europe (were this specimen to have come from either, its value would be astronomical). From the collection of Bob Werner, who purchased it from Horst Burkard in 2006.