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Apatite with Hubnerite on sulfides (mined by Rich Kosnar) 
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Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado
- Starting Time:12/29/2011 06:45:00 PM(CST)
- Ending Time:1/5/2012 06:49:32 PM(CST)
Time Left:Auction Is Closed
- Size:Miniature
- Size Description:4.5 x 3.2 x 2.1 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 3 mm which are associated with some gemmy, vibrant blood-red Hubnerite crystals up to 1.6 cm sitting on Quartz and sulfide (Galena, Tetrahedrite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite) matrix. This piece was collected in 1977 out of a very small pocket that only produced a handful of these Apatite specimens.
