Cleavage surfaces of cubic Altaite crystals, a rare natural compound of lead and tellurium, very shiny, on matrix, with Tellurantimony. The locality from which this specimen comes is the type locality for this rare telluride, Tellurantimony.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label stating that it was previously in the Tom Loomis collection and was collected in 1972.
Mattagami Lake Mine, sub-level 825, Mattagami, Nord-du-Québec, Québec Canada (1972)
Specimen size: 3 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.71” × 0.47”
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