Calcite (rare locality specimen) (ex Gary Weaver Collection)

Item Description

Most people have not seen a Calcite specimen from this area in person, as they are rarely seen on the market these days. Calcites from near La Junta form in nodules/concretions in Cretaceous-aged Pierre Shale and are cracked open to reveal the beautiful crystals inside. This piece features beautiful, sharp, gemmy, colorless, compressed rhombohedra of Calcite aesthetically sitting atop the underlying matrix. The largest Calcite measures 3.2 cm across, which is very good sized for the locality. The Calcite has minor roughness along the top right edge, but you can barely tell unless you look very closely. A really showy and good quality example of these seldom-seen specimens from southeastern Colorado. From the collection of Gary Weaver of Prescott, Arizona (1944-2019). Gary was an electrical engineer who worked for many years for Hughes Aircraft in California. After retiring to Prescott, Arizona in the early 2000s, Gary rekindled his childhood love of minerals, amassing a collection of roughly 2000 specimens focusing on localities in which he and his wife had lived or visited (Mexico, Peru and the western / southwestern United States). You can read Gary's obituary here https://www.dcourier.com/news/2019/apr/27/obituary-gary-richard-weaver/.