Emerald

This is an unusual thumbnail size specimen. A grouping of copper crystals up to 0.5 cm sitting on a sheet of copper. The specimen is from the Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan.

Beautiful transparent blue to mauve color cubes up 2.0 cm on edge. Crystal edges are bevelled, (I believe the modified cubes are correctly described as tetra hexahedrons). Scattered pyrite is visible in the crevices around the perimeter of the specimen. The specimen is from the Jamina Mine, Corrales, Berbes – Caravia, Austurias, Spain.

This is a very good locality specimen from Pohla, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Several honey/gold high luster crystals display nicely on the matrix.

Undamaged grouping of tan colored calcite crystals projecting prominently from a matrix which is covered with a first generation of smaller white calcite crystals. The top crystal is twinned. An unusual locality for me in that it comes from Gralex Quarry, Mont-sur-Marchienne, Charleroi, Hainaut Province, Belgium.