Walter In Denver

That's A Rock

Both the Denver dailies carried the story of the latest addition to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's mineral collection. Here it is-

It's from Mount Antero in central Colorado. The blue prisms you see sticking up out of the host rock are gem aquamarine. I've seem hundreds, maybe thousands of specimens from Mount Antero (I just mentioned some a few weeks ago) but I've never seen anything that aproaches this. Just breathtaking. And since it's now in the museum I'll make the trip to see it in person soon.

Here's a closeup-

The prospector who found it says he made a sum in the low six figures from this. I say he's selling it cheap.

Both images from the Denver Post article.

Posted by Walter at November 11, 2006 04:45 PM