A beautiful "wheat sheave" cluster of elongated manganoan calcite crystals, with an intense pink coloration to them (stronger , richer pink color in fluorescent light as opposed to halogen light, under which these photos were shot). Complete all around, this is from a series of pockets which produced such pieces in mid-2011. Seems that since then, new pieces of this style are more uncommon. I believe these will be remembered as a contemporary classic, as well as for their beauty. The pink, manganoan-rich calcite is fluorescent orange-red under UV light.

A strangely shaped cluster of intergrown calcites, with good pink color. The shape and apttern of this cluster are the result of intergrowth with quartz crystals during the formation of calcite in this pocket, and some of the grooves and straight lines you see on the calcite "stalk" are where it was constrained in growth, we think. A beautiful and highly unusual specimen that is unlike other calcites we have seen from the mine, as yet. The slightly pink, manganoan-rich calcite is fluorescent orange-red under UV light. From late-2011 finds. A little more pink in person than appears here

A very large, lustrous and partially translucent, olive-green andradite crystal, measuring nearly 6 cm in length, is aesthetically perched high on a matrix of white calcite. The calcite seems to be coating another mineral underneath (not sure what, maybe another calcite) which was a well formed, tabular crystal, 5 cm in length and now draped in white calcite. This is one of the larger good garnets I have yet seen from the locale

A rare combination piece with fluorite growing off aesthetic, large lollingite crystals. The lollingites (a species related to arsenopyrite) from this mine are being hailed as best of species material. Spear shaped, lustrous, silvery crystals to 7.9 cm in length host a complex, glassy and gemmy, colorless fluorite crystal ( 2.5 cm in length). A neat combo specimen from recent finds of spring 2012. Unlike most such pieces found, this has dramatic 3-dimensional aesthetics and clearly shows the bladed crystals standing up. Many are either damaged, or flat-laying

A sharp specimen of superb genthelvite crystals of a translucent red-amber color , to 1.6 cm, in a beautiful matrix of calcite. This is a highly uusual association, and I find it far more aesthetic than nearly all the others I have seen (and seldom bought) from here in any size. Many people are calling these best of species material, and when seen in a combo piece like this it is tempting to agree.