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Ben, Why live anywhere else? How about today's temperature in Havre (or even a little further east perhaps). 🙂 Yeah, Montana is a nice place, now if I could just get more of these Californians to decide it is better than N. Idaho… 400 pounds that is big, for most anywhere. The other large ones I have mentioned were described by other collectors in the Butte area, so, except for one that goes about 120 pounds, and has some amethyst overgrowing the tip (if I'm not confusing it with a smaller specimen) I have never seen the big ones. I've been to Crystal Park too, really only spent more than a few hours there a couple times, hit one nice scepter pocket, longest only about 2 inches–but nice stuff. There has been some good stuff displayed at the Butte and Missoula shows showing the amethyst and smoky color in nice scepters. Guess I should have worked harder at it!! The Montana barites–from the sceptarian nodules perhaps? They sound great. I'ave only looked for them at the one place in my book and only found a few smaller ones–a little better than an inch. Lanny