Sulfur (gemmy crystal)

Item Description

This miniature sized piece is fine quality example of the famous, classic electric yellow colored Sulfur crystals from Cianciana, Sicily, Italy. This piece is sharp, well-formed, glowing yellow color, textbook crystal of Sulfur with excellent internal gemminess when backlit. The crystal is doubly-terminated, but not a complete "floater", as there are some small nicks here and there. The piece has no major damage on the front/display side of the piece. A really showy and excellent quality display specimen of what are the most famous Sulfur crystals in the world. Priced at $950 in the inventory. For reference, this species should be spelled S-U-L-F-U-R (not sulphur) as both the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry along with the British Royal Society of Chemistry adopted this spelling in the 1990s (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur#Spelling_and_etymology). Wikipedia also states that, "Sulfur is derived from the Latin word sulpur, which was Hellenized to sulphur in the erroneous belief that the Latin word came from Greek."