Harold (Hal) Prior's Photo Gallery
4JW-X1XBaryte BaSO4
Dimensions: 5.0 cm x 4.0 cm x 1.5 cm
Collected approximately 50 years ago form a long defunct locale - now reclaimed by nature!
6RJ-73LTheodossia
Dimensions: 3.0 cm x 3.0 cm x 2.0 cm
Devonian Age, Theodossia hungerfordi, Cerro Gordo member, Lime Creek formation
LKA-5CWSchizophoria iowensis
Dimensions: 3.5 cm x 3.0 cm x 2.0 cm
Devonian Age, Cerro Gordo member, Lime Creek formation
NMP-Y55Homalophyllum
Dimensions: 5.2 cm x 2.0 cm x 2.0 cm
Devonian Age, Cerro Gordo member, Lime Creek formation
P03-XN2Aragonite (Var: Lead-bearing Aragonite) (Ca,Pb)CO3 , Wulfenite Pb(MoO4)
Dimensions: 5.0 cm x 3.5 cm x 2.0 cm
minor Wulfenite on back side
212-L0QPrehnite Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 , Quartz SiO2
Dimensions: 9.1 cm x 7.0 cm x 7.5 cm
Great locale specimen with provenance! Collected in the 1960's by W. P. Hinckley, co-author of Volume 2 Maine Mines and Minerals - Eastern ME. Classic find encountered during road construction of Smoky Quartz crystals with an overgrowth of translucent light green Prehnite.
545-A62Sulphur S8 , Calcite CaCO3
Dimensions: 7.0 cm x 5.0 cm x 3.5 cm
Cut from the center of a core section.
Mine view of our workings in fall 1995
View of the South side of the mine worked by H. Prior, and Glenn Williams in 1995. Access to the mine was by foot traverse over rugged terrain with heavy overgrowth.
GGH-XUKCalcite CaCO3
Dimensions: 11.5 cm x 7.7 cm x 4.5 cm
Acquired from my collector friend Glenn Williams in 1970.
R4G-9JCSphalerite ZnS , Calcite CaCO3
Dimensions: 11.2 cm x 7.1 cm x 5.5 cm
I acquired this one in July 1968 during a visit to Chink Enders home - before his untimely demise at the hands of a serial killer. Chink had just came up from underground and was using a hose to clean the specimens in his front yard. After the purchases he took my 5 year old son to get an Ice cream cone at a nearby ice cream shop.
