Purple Halite

Racalmuto Mine, Racalmuto salt mines, Racalmuto saliferous deposit, Racalmuto, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy

5×3,3×2,5 cm.

From this defunct Sicilian area, world famous in the past for having produced marvelous Sulphur specimens, here for sale a fantastic rare old well defined crystal of Halite intensely purple with evident internal phantom that worthily rivals the best, and better known, blue and purple French Halite crystals.