Pyrite Cluster from Trepça Mines, Kosovo wire wrapped crystals From Paprok

From Paprok

associated with lustrous black metallic Sb-bearing sulfosalt crystals in the stibnite group

pale purple

Size 105 x 80 x 73 mm

Pyrite Cluster from Trepça Mines, Kosovo wire wrapped crystals From PaprokThis is a beautiful natural crystal cluster with cubic pyrite from the famous Trepa Mine complex in the Trepa Valley in Kosovo. Size: 95 x 68 x 48 mm. 594 grams. The history of the Trepa Mines traces back the Middle Ages. Modern operations began with the establishment of Trepca Mining and Metallurgical Complex in the 1920s. After World War II, the communist government nationalized all privately held companies in Yugoslavia, including Trepca, and