I am still trying to decide whether or not to contact the collector owner of that particular tellurium crystal on sylvanite personally and make him an offer. For some reason that fucker has me green with envy. Its just so damn fine a specimen. Not something you'd wish to handle (Te breath....no thanks. Sulfur edition was bad enough once, and that was a horrifying experience, absofuckinglutely shockingly awful, people would move from 100s yards off to get away walking in open air down a street after something produced mercaptans endogenously as a metabolite. Clothes had to be kept on for about a week, and then disposed of for good, away from the house, even belt, coat, everything but shoes had to go, permanently. Burnt some IIRC. Apparently tellurium breath, which can result from absorption of tiny, tiny quantities is so awful that people have actually comitted suicide because it was so utterly, terribly foul. I don't experiment on tellurium analogs of sulfur an potentially selenium containing psychotropics AT ALL for that reason. I've heard tell of books in unis being retired permanently because of being touched by students engaged in work on Te compounds. But for the collection, it looks awesome native. Selenium does, the grey allotrope does at least, as it can be melt-cast like sulfur and melted into a shiny, almost flawless mirror finish. Sulfur is more fun for its plastic allotrope, formed although shortlived, by pouring molten sulfur into cold water, the result is like toffee and can be pulled and stretched when cool and moulded by hand into forms and left to harden.
Currently not bought anything but bought cheesecake, dried beef chews, jerky, and vodka yesterday. Oh and a big pouch of amber leaf rolling baccy.
