Magnetite

MagnetiteThis specimen has fine, sharp, lustrous, black, metallic, "Alpine type" octahedra (some are twinned) associated with cream colored Feldspar on matrix. Great quality for the species and the locality, and the faces on the Magnetite crystals are rather smooth and shiny with good isolation between the crystals. Keep in mind that there are no other localities producing Magnetites of this quality today, and there are few localities in the world that have

Richard Kosnar

that the damage is easily forgiven

it IS the only locality that I know of where Rhodochrosite occurs with STILBITE

This piece is from the type locality for Vauxite

that shows well from several angles

A very similar specimen can be viewed at https://www

but to find non-pseudomorphic

Rarely do you see specimens this size with such great crystallization as this one

There were very few crystals from the entire find on matrix

well-formed faces on the piece

A soft greenish-grey colored prismatic crystal of Amazonite associated with a white "rosette" of Cleavelandite on the side

and virtually everything goes into the crusher