Yellow Beryl (classic material)

Item Description

A cool and hard to find matrix specimen of yellow Beryl from the famous Crabtree Mine, near Spruce Pine, North Carolina. This famous Beryl pegmatite locality has been mined in the late 1890s and has produced some fine quality Emeralds over the last century. This piece is a good example of the lesser seen and sought after yellow Beryls from the Crabtree Mine featuring a few sharp, well-formed, prismatic, hexagonal crystals measuring 5.3 cm long with minor associated Smoky Quartz sitting on Microcline matrix. If you collect Beryls, pegmatite specimens or minerals from North Carolina, you can't miss out on this attractive small cabinet display specimen. For the overall size, quality and aesthetics, this is a pretty darned good specimen of this hard to find classic material. Typically the Beryl crystals from this locality are found frozen in the matrix, but this piece has good exposure of the main crystals, and it's very good sized compared to most I've seen from this mine. As is often the case, the termination is not complete on the big crystal, but it comes with the territory for Crabtree pieces. I am calling this piece Yellow Beryl and not Heliodor, because I think that the name Heliodor is typically reserved for gemmier material.