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SPECIMENS FROM COLORADO

(updated 1/18/2010)

We have many specimens from our home state, only a few of which we could include on this page. We also have a wide variety of specimens of golden barite, pyrite, & marmatite (iron-bearing sphalerite) from the Eagle Mine, goethite from the Crystal Peak area, fluorite & amethyst from Unaweep Canyon, rhodochrosite & galena from the Julia Fisk Mine, and calcite on calcite from the La Junta area.

__ Large blue barite specimen, Hartsel, CO (#G07-699, $30)

____Barite, Stoneham, Weld Co., Colorado. (#G09-664, $18; G09-674, $54). We have several of these with prices ranging from $15-$60.

__ Hematite-included quartz, Red Feather Lakes, Larimer County, CO (#G07-367, $30). These come in variety of shades of pink, from reddish-pink to flesh colored. Some specimens also have some specular/black hematite coating part of the crystals. We have a lot of these specimens, both as crystal clusters and single points, priced from $4-$32, with most at $10 or less.

__ Close up of some of the quartz crystals on the specimen above.

__ Quartz after calcite, Crystal Cave, Ouray County, CO(#G06-980, $15). These are unique specimens of small quartz crystals that had grown over calcite crystals, but the calcite has since dissolved away. We have several of these, priced from $5-$25.

__ A view of the back side of the specimen above, showing the casts of the original calcite crystals.

__ Amazonite and cleavelandite, Crystal Peak area, Teller County, CO (#G07-249).We have a wide variety of amazonite specimens, a few with smoky quartz, priced from $4-$76, with most under $20.

__ Rare amazonite "white cap" crystal, Crystal peak area, Teller County, CO.(#G07-243, $68). This is also a twinned crystal with a small goethite crystal on the lower left.

__Smoky quartz and microcline, Crystal Peak area, Teller County, CO. (#G04-774, $15). We have a lot of smoky quartz, both in crystal groups like this or as single crystals, priced from $4-$52, with most under $15.

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