Augelite (rare green color) (ex Dave Bergman Collection)

Item Description

Augelite is an uncommon aluminum phosphate, and through the years, has typically been found in white / colorless crystals from famous localities like the Champion Mine in California and various places in Bolivia. Even the well-known Augelites from Rapid Creek in Canada show typically only a slight amount of color. When the Peruvian Augelites hit the market in the early 2000s, they set a new standard for the species in terms of quality and color! The best of these specimens show an INTENSE green hue, that glows even without any backlighting. This large thumbnail sized specimen features a predominant sharp, lustrous, "wedge"-shaped monoclinic crystal of glowing green colored Augelite measuring 2.1 cm long associated a few smaller Augelites on white Quartz crystals on matrix. Very little damage that I can see with the naked eye. A beautiful and showy display specimen of this fine quality and colorful material. Ex Dave Bergman Collection. Dave is a Colorado miner (formerly the foreman and primary person in charge of recovering specimens at the famous Sweet Home Mine near Alma, Colorado during the late 1970s) and the maternal grandfather of Brian Kosnar. See Dave's photo mining at the Sweet Home on page 58 of Peter Bancroft's book "Gem and Crystal Treasures". The piece was given to Dave as a gift by his son-in-law, Rich Kosnar in June of 1984 and the hand-written label from Kosnar accompanies the piece.