Orpiment Specimen 80g — Gold Bar Mine, Nevada USA

Liquid Gold in Mineral Form — From a Legendary Nevada Mine

This vivid orpiment specimen from the Gold Bar Mine in Nevada, USA, is a collector's gem. Orpiment is one of the most visually striking minerals in existence — its intense, saturated golden-yellow to orange colour is almost unreal, like sunlight solidified into crystal form. The Gold Bar Mine is a renowned locality for fine orpiment specimens, and this 80g example does not disappoint.

Orpiment is an arsenic sulphide mineral that forms in hydrothermal veins and hot spring deposits. Its name derives from the Latin auripigmentum — meaning "gold pigment" — and it was historically ground and used as a pigment by artists. Today it is prized purely for its extraordinary natural beauty.

• Weight: 80g
• Natural orpiment
• Locality: Gold Bar Mine, Nevada, USA
• Arsenic sulphide mineral
• Vivid golden-yellow to orange colouration
• Rare and highly collectible

A bold, luminous specimen from one of the world's great orpiment localities.