The Eclectic Lapidary is currently undergoing renovation. This is the opening to Scott Kleine's candid video of his trip to the Majuba Hill Mine. Occasionally moving a finger or hand into view for scale, he describes one magnificent specimen after another.
Mining sounds echo as a backdrop to the view of the intense green crystals.
Scott is breathless as he explains how he is about to open another pocket. He points out how the green crystals among the adularia are getting larger as he gets nearer to the pocket. If you cannot get out into the field yourself, these few moments give you an incredible sense of what it is like to actually be there. And then, just as suddenly, we are back in the mine, looking into the just opened pocket. It is everything Scott hoped for, amazing chalcophyllite, with powder-blue, crystallized balls of scorodite, and centimeter large crystals of adularia.