#Tucson 95 report
Hi Doug and all,
I really doubt that Wayne will open the Red Cloud to collectors. As soon as he
gets financing arranged he is going to start a cut (not and "open pit") and
work it down to the (I believe) 150 level, which should put him through the
best wulfenite zone. Generally it isn't convenient/safe to allow others around
such an operation. And, considering the fact that he has invested a lot of
money just to try and recover specimens, it doesn't seem likely that he would
allow others in and give them the chance to make a big find.
I don't recall the prices of the diamond crystals in matrix. I generally don't
take the time to write down prices. It seems like they weren't too high, in the
hundreds, and I weakly recall seeing $300 on a couple (but don't hold me to
that). Most crysals were around 1/4 inch (a little above, a little below) and
they were various forms and colorless to light brownish. Most appeared to be
little gems. Reportedly they were newly mined.
Sorry about the Tucson95 file name. I forgot that CIS is more archaic than DOS
and was pleased that something meaningful like Tucson95 made it within the DOS
format. FYI I have received 47 requests for the file through rocks-and-fossils
and rockhounds mailing lists. It is now going to be put on the rockhounds Web
page. I have this type of report in the Mineral News every year, write it
myself if I go, and have a couple others who do it otherwise, same for Denver,
and sometimes a report comes in for Pasadena and others.
Lanny