Augelite (rare green color) on Quartz (ex Gary Weaver 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 green 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 small cabinet sized specimen features several sharp, lustrous, "wedge"-shaped monoclinic crystals of glowing green colored Augelite measuring up to 8 mm long associated with colorless, "needle" 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. From the collection of Gary Weaver (1944-2019), an electrical engineer who worked for Hughes Aircraft in California. After retiring to Prescott, Arizona in the early 2000s, Gary rekindled his childhood love of minerals, amassing a collection of roughly 2000 specimens, focusing on localities in which he and his wife had lived or visited (Mexico, Peru and the western / southwestern United States). You can read Gary's obituary here https://www.dcourier.com/news/2019/apr/27/obituary-gary-richard-weaver/