A thin carpet of intensely colored, blue-green, botryoidal rosasite is emplaced on both sides of a limonite matrix. Totally covering the rosasite are sparkling, glassy and gemmy, colorless rhombs of calcite, to 6mm across. Many calcites are actually included by rosasite, it seems. The sparkling lustre of the calcite is vivid and mesmerizing. It really is "different" from most others in this pocket or other finds here. Also, such an inclusion is extremely unusual at this mine or any other (most blue in calcites, is aurichalcite). With this specimen, note the unusual multihued blue colors on the display face

An interesting combo specimen featuring flattened , disc-like galena crystals stacked upon matrix, and surrounded by a halo of translucent disc-shaped calcites. This is unusual for Andreasberg, in that I have not seen many galenas from there that are pretty but the place is famous for its wide variety of calcites.

An interesting vintage-1853 piece with several generations of calcite present! One generation of small, discshaped, gemmy calcites has coated a previous generation of extremely elongated "angel-wing" style calcite, making for a fairly dramatic and different specimen from what we normally see from here. I cannot make out the mine name in Andreasberg on the label, but it is indeed from this district.