Copper ("Spinel"-twins and crystals)This beautiful specimen of Native Copper features a pleasing combination of defined "Spinel" twins and well formed crystals intergrown to create a display quality miniature. The piece is highlighted at the top by a wonderful dodecahedral crystal of Copper with both smooth well formed positive faces and skeletal or "hoppered" negative faces sitting atop an elongated group of "Spinel" twins which branch out along the length of the specimen. Each of the

it is truly only found in a handful of localities in well-crystallized display specimens

A beautiful pink and green gemmy “pencil” of Liddicoatite from the Sahatany Valley

To have a hand sized display specimen of Augelite from Bolivia

Excellent for the locality

and a worthwhile pickup for anybody interested in the material

Hand sized Demantoid specimens from Sferlun are certainly uncommon

Specimen #VIVBOL81803

but please note that this specimen is somewhat FRAGILE and it must be handled carefully

Brazilian minerals or just top-quality minerals specimens

This piece is not only doubly terminated but is actually a complete “floater” as BOTH crystals on the specimen have terminations

He was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936

Ferberite is rarely found in twinned crystals