the color of the Brookites is a deep orange-red (best seen with backlighting) which contrasts wonderfully with the black "phantoms"
This specimen is an impressive
The two-tone effect created from the inclusions makes for an eye-catching piece as a lot of the specimens from this mine are not terribly colorful
"sword"-shaped crystals of Vivianite with metamorphosed Sandstone
It’s rather uncommon to find crystallized Goethite ON Smoky Quartz like this from any world locality
Beryl (var: Aquamarine) Hopeite the color of the BrookitesThis Aquamarine specimen was mined by Richard Kosnar in the late 1970's and his diggings produced some of the finest color, unheated Aquamarine in the world. Most of these crystals are not gem quality, but this crystal has approximately 90% gem clarity, which is very good for the material. This crystal is a fine, sharp, GEM gemmy, slightly hydrothermally etched, rich blue color prism of Aquamarine from one of the more obscure localities for the