Park Co., Colorado, USA

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Almandine : Fe²⁺₃Al₂[SiO₄]₃
	Tarryall Springs District (Puma City), Park Co., Colorado, USA Almandine Garnets on orthoclase. Sizes are 6.5x5.5x2 cm and 7x6.5x4cm. The basic shape is dodecahedron on trapezohedron and they are my favorite color, black. These were found along the South-East base of Badger Mountain between the St Joe Prospect and Unknown Uranium Prospect (MRDS 10264639). The location is now a shooting range and so ...
© D. Allum	Photo ID: 208125 View Count: 109
Apatite-(CaF) : Ca₅[F\|(PO₄)₃]
	Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA 2.6 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm. 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 ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 157565 View Count: 114
Apatite-(CaF) : Ca₅[F\|(PO₄)₃]
	Rose Dawn Mine (Rose Dawn Mica Mine; North Mine), Micanite District, Park Co., Colorado, USA Partial crystal showing some faces; 6.6x5.5x4cm; These specimens fluoresce yellow under UV light. Collected by Rudy Bolona; June 2, 2007.
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Apatite-(CaF) : Ca₅[F\|(PO₄)₃]
	Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA 4.6 x 3.9 x 1.3 cm. 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 from the Sweet Home mine. This specimen features a few sharp, lustrous, gemmy, ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 228528 View Count: 29
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Hartsel District, Park Co., Colorado, USA Large single crystal of blue-gray barite with internal growth zoning. Excellent specimen, no damage. Originally acquired from Richard Kosnar in 1981. Ex. Dr. E. Sensel collection #BL953. Overall size of mineral specimen: 9x6x2 cm. Size of individual crystals: 9 cm.
© 2001 John H. Betts	Photo ID: 797 View Count: 508
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Hartsel District, Park Co., Colorado, USA Another good Colorado barite from yet another classic old locality, this one with pale green-gray crystals to 3.5 cm, and one very pretty and well-formed crystal in particular that makes a fine frontal display face. This is very old material, now seldom seen for sale. ex. George Fisher Collection 4.5 x 4.5 x 4.1 cm
© Rob ++++++++	Photo ID: 19420 View Count: 322
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Hartsel District, Park Co., Colorado, USA Classic yellow and blue Hartsel Barite. 6 cm. My Barite collecion.
© J. Wingard	Photo ID: 33047 View Count: 292
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Hartsel, Hartsel District, Park Co., Colorado, USA A neat matrix-less cluster of translucent to transparent barite crystals measuring 3.5 x 2.6 x 5.2 cm in size overall. Slight chipping is present but overall in very good shape. This is more "yellowish" than the typical blue-gray seen at the locality. Better quality than most as well with the transparency. There are phantom crystals present. ...
© Dan Weinrich	Photo ID: 133624 View Count: 115
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Hartsel, Hartsel District, Park Co., Colorado, USA Baryte in situ. The seam was around 1 foot thick here, and was starting to increase as it dipped down to the right of the photo. This baryte was exposed, so has turned blue from the sun. I didn't think of measuring, but that is a normal sized man's hand for scale.
© Jim Hall 2009	Photo ID: 247360 View Count: 57
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Hartsel, Hartsel District, Park Co., Colorado, USA A choice cluster of bluish-gray tabular barite crystals measuring 6.9 x 5.5 x 4.4 cm in size without matrix. Some chipping is present, typical of these. A nice example for the locality from the collection of Don Belsher.
© Dan & Diana Weinrich Minerals	Photo ID: 267829 View Count: 4