Brookite on QuartzA very aesthetic thumbnail specimen from Pakistan featuring a pair of sharp, "sword" shaped crystals with a glowing golden orange hue and thin black internal "phantoms" which are growing at nearly a 90 degree angle off of a single, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, colorless prismatic hexagonal Quartz crystal with minor green Clinochlore "Chlorite" inclusions at the base. The Brookites measure up to 1. 1 cm long and are completely undamaged. What an eye

and one corner of the twin has a slight “rub”

Brian Kosnar collection

which is not common from this locality

there is a deep golden-brown hue that can be seen

rich orange-red color "sword"-shaped Brookite crystals measuring up to 8 mm with sharp

and a superb representation of the species and the locality

The main Brookite is undamaged and is actually intergrown (bisected) with a smaller Brookite that created an interesting form at the base

The fact that the spheres are somewhat isolated and not completely intergrown makes for an impressive and rarely seen representation from Siglo XX

ants (Formicidae) and bark beetles (Scolytinae)

yet important locality for Pyrite in Colorado is the Climax Mine

Subscribers to the Mineralogical Record know that an entire issue was dedicated to this unique and historic locality

and arguably