Galena with Pyrite on Quartz (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)

Item Description

The Camp Bird mine is one of the most classic San Juan Mountain localities, and is famous for its sulfides. Some of the most attractive and impressive sulfide association specimens are found in this mine along with the Idarado mine. This specimen features several sharp, grey, cubic Galena crystals up to 1.0 cm with sharp, lustrous, modified Pyrite crystals up to 7 mm which are intermixed with milky prismatic Quartz crystals on matrix. An attractive full cabinet sized display specimen from this classic San Juan Mountain locality in southwestern Colorado. From the Brian Kosnar Collection when he was a kid, and his collection number (BK302) is glued to the back of the piece.