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Apatite (mined by Rich Kosnar) viewBack to CONSIGNMENT and COLLECTION AUCTIONS - Ends December 1st

Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado
  • Starting Time:11/25/2011 06:45:00 PM(CST)
  • Ending Time:12/1/2011 06:45:00 PM(CST)
  • Time Left:Auction Is Closed

  • Size:Small Cabinet
  • Size Description:6.3 x 3.6 x 2.3 cm

Description:For those who don't know, Richard Kosnar mined the Sweet Home for a few years during the late 1970's and managed to collect some excellent specimens. This piece is from one of the first pockets that Rich opened when he started mining the Sweet Home. Apatite is rather rare in my experience from the Sweet Home. This specimen features a few, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, bicolor (green and colorless), doubly-terminated Apatite crystals up to 4 mm sitting on Quartz and sulfide matrix. This piece was collected in 1977 out of a very small pocket that only produced a handful of these Apatite specimens.