Quartz “cast” after AnhydriteA beautiful small cabinet sized specimen from the famous Silver Point Mine that produced some of the most well known Quartz casts from the state. These specimens have been labeled as being Quartz after Baryte pseudomorphs but, given the fact that Baryte is chemically inert and nearly impossible to dissolve, it is almost certain that these pseudomorphs are Quartz replacing Anhydrite. Finally, it appears that somebody else is on board with me as I read

and nothing new for many years

A solitary

as many of the Augelites from this mine are not terribly colorful

A classic example of the famous Murzinka Topazes from the Urals in Russia

great and form and in such good condition

This piece is from the same mine for which this material was discovered along the Contacto and San Jose veins and was first described by Sam Gordon and Mark Bandy

When these world-class Fluorites were discovered

From the collection of Willard W

and it displays well from a few angles

The side of the piece has a second spherical aggregate that was contact upon extraction from the pocket

and certainly worth picking up if you are a collector of San Juan minerals

This specimen is a rich