Rhodochrosite on Quartz with SphaleriteThe Champion Mine is well known to Colorado collectors, but specimens are seldom available on the market. This piece features several sharp, well formed, lustrous, translucent, vivid pink color, compressed rhombohedra of Rhodochrosite forming semi "rosette" shaped groups sitting on contrasting white Quartz and black Sphalerite matrix with small bits of Pyrite sprinkled here and there. This is a showy display specimen from this hard to find locality in

GEM quality green and “cat’s eye” pink bicolor group with the renowned tapered scepter habit

and the robust crystals with their sharp

it shows a wonderful internal color

jet-black to golden colored

but really attractive in person

“sword”-shaped crystal is one of the better quality single Vivianites that I’ve offered from this famous locality

Colorado during the late 1970s with my dad

This lesser-known locality apparently produced some specimens in the late 1990s when a few enterprising individuals were able to liberate pieces in their free time

I think that Boleite easily ranks among the top species in the world in terms of a combination rarity and beauty

gemminess and unique color

foliated Pyrrhotite with soft golden colored “discs” of Siderite from the famous Eagle Mine (more properly the New Jersey Zinc Eagle Mine) near Gilman

very sharp(