Rhodochrosite on Green Quartz (ex Gary Weaver Collection)

Item Description

The Grizzly Bear Mine is well-known among Colorado collectors for producing some really gorgeous Rhodochrosite specimens in the 1980s and 1990s. This piece is a beautiful miniature that features clusters of pale pink Rhodochrosite measuring up to 5 mm across sitting atop pale green colored Quartz on matrix. This characteristic green color of the Quartz is synonymous with the Grizzly Bear Mine. A good quality and showy specimen of this beloved material from the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. 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/