Colorado Crystal Find.
03-Sep-94 21:53:05
Sb: #144346-Colorado Crystal Find.
Fm: Guy Hammer 72315,465
To: William Mattison 73123,2305
Hi, Bill
> Someone found a very large crystal claimed to be "priceless". A picture was
> shown on TV: it appeared rather deep red, very translucent, and
> rhombohedral.
PMFJI, but your description sounds a lot like one of the Rhodochrosite
specimens that have come out of the Sweet Home mine in the last year or two.
Rhombs 2+ inches on a black matrix sprinkled with several other crystal
varieties. Lanny and I saw one of those in a local private collection recently
(well… last May). It was breathtaking (as was the rest of the collection
<g>). As I recall, the owner claimed that the sister specimen had been donated
to the Denver museum.
Cheers, Guy/OR