Orpiment 18.00 ct.

Orpiment

Is a arsenic sulfide of yellow color, and quite often is altered realgar.

It is found mostly as this encrustation or dusty thin layers on top or between rock fissures . It is rare to find cut stone like in this case, the easy cleavage,softness it split like paper with the hands,makes it very difficult to cut and polish. From China

Size:19x11.4x8.7 mm.

Weight:18.00 ct.

CODE#3499