Native Tellurium & Coloradoite (Type Locality)

Item Description

A very rich, rare and old native tellurium and rare tellurides ore specimen from this obscure mine in the famous Gold Hill District. Boulder County is the Type Locality for coloradoite. The Hal Miller Collection label, with matching old cloth label number on the specimen, indicates that this piece has native tellurium and coloradoite with minor empressite, hessite and sylvanite (altaite?). Very rich veins of silvery-metallic and metallic-gray micro crystals course through all sides of the quartz-rich matrix. Such rich telluride Boulder County combination material is very difficult to obtain. A must for the species or locality collector. Rich ore at 359 grams. Value???