The two-tone effect created from the inclusions makes for an eye-catching piece as a lot of the specimens from this mine are not terribly colorful
This specimen is an impressive
The piece displays a fantastic blending of the large central twin which is flanged on several sides by small Copper crystallization
"sword"-shaped crystals of Vivianite with metamorphosed Sandstone
golden-black "blades" of Goethite forming a beautiful crystallized "mound" sitting atop hollow “casts” or epimorphs after preexisting Quartz crystals
Beryl (var: Aquamarine) Hopeite The two-tone effect created fromThis Aquamarine specimen was mined by Richard Kosnar in the late 1970's and his diggings produced some of the finest color, unheated Aquamarine in the world. Most of these crystals are not gem quality, but this crystal has approximately 90% gem clarity, which is very good for the material. This crystal is a fine, sharp, GEM gemmy, slightly hydrothermally etched, rich blue color prism of Aquamarine from one of the more obscure localities for the