Chrysocolla with Quartz (ex Gary Weaver Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful association specimen from the Bagdad Mine featuring sharp, lustrous, gemmy, colorless prisms of Quartz which are coated by beautiful blue and green Chrysocolla on matrix. This particular style of Quartz with Chrysocolla is RARE in my experience from this locality, because you almost NEVER see such well-defined, euhedral Quartz crystals. from the Bagdad Mine is nearly impossible to find on the market, and you can only get them in old collections. This piece probably dates to the 1950s or 1960s. Valued at $800. From the collection of Gary Weaver of Prescott, Arizona (1944-2019). Gary was an electrical engineer who worked for many years 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/