Spinel ("floater")A beautiful and excellent quality floater octahedron of gorgeous lavender colored Spinel. The faces are incredibly smooth and lustrous, and you can see this is a textbook example of a single octahedron. The crystal is quite gemmy, with good sized sections inside the crystal that are WATER CLEAR when backlit. Hard to photograph, but really attractive in person, and a nice piece to add to any thumbnail collection or a suite of gem crystals. The crystal

GEM quality / WATER CLEAR “floater” crystal of colorless Quartz from an area that RARELY produces Quartz of this quality

No damage to the Brookites and it's not very often that one finds such superb eye-catching examples of the species in near full-size cabinet display specimens such as this

An amazingly bright yellow-green glow can be seen that is almost unmatched in fluorescent minerals

This cluster is a great display specimen of Eagle Mine Pyrite showing typical striated pyritohedra with sharp

which are pure UV and more powerful than virtually any UV lights that can be purchased at retail stores

Several great

so don't miss out on this eye-catching piece with wonderful color

Then the mine manager decided that the miners were too distracted collecting Vivianite and not attending to their duties underground

Pyrrhotite is well known from this mine

The underside of the piece shows the square cross-section of the once preexisting Anhydrite crystal that was the base for the cast

otherwise the price would be quite a bit higher

and this piece would make a fine addition to any thumbnail collection or a suite of Pakistani minerals or worldwide metamorphic minerals