Quartz with Hematite Inclusions Törnebohmite and along with specimens from

and along with specimens from the Sherman Mine in Leadville

The Rhodochrosites from this mine are not the typical blocky rhombic habit like those seen from a lot of other ore bodies in Colorado

cotton candy pink rhombs of Rhodochrosite which have an interesting

spherical "bead"-like nodules of Opal-AN which have a stunning internal gemminess and are smartly sitting on host rock matrix

Here we have a well-formed

Quartz with Hematite Inclusions Törnebohmite and along with specimens fromA highly attractive Strawberry Quartz "Shield" cut gem containing bright reddish orange, inclusions of Hematite floating inside of it. Hematite can form in slender, acicular or "needle like", bright red crystals (typically as inclusions inside of Quartz), but it's rarely seen from Madagascar. The distinguishing factor for these stones that separates the good from the great is the color of the inclusions. Typically, the inclusions are a brownish color