Quartz (ex Gary Weaver Collection)

Item Description

An attractive Quartz specimen featuring a predominant 5.1 cm long, sharp, lustrous, milky-white group of hexagonal prisms which are elegant set among dozens of smaller Quartz crystals of equal quality for form a very attractive, three-dimensional and aesthetic display specimen. The piece is labeled as coming from Cliffhanger Pocket in the Amphitheater Glacial Cirque east of the town of Ouray in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The piece is so showy as you can see from the photos, and it would make a great addition to any Quartz suite or a collection of Colorado minerals. Most of the crystals are undamaged, with only minor roughness to be seen. From the collection of Gary Weaver (1944-2019), an electrical engineer who worked 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/