Description
Widely open vugs in a brecciated Quartz matrix richly lined with sharp, gemmy, translucent textbook Scorodite crystals. Their color is a light Prussian blue with a slight gray hue. This is classic material from specimen mining in the 1990s. Very aesthetic and now rare and expensive. Did you know that German Mineralogist Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt named the species in 1818 from the Greek word σκορόδιου = “Scorodion” = garlic-like, due to the smell when heated.