Pocket on display.(Museum Notes)(aquamarine pocket)(Brief article)

From: Rocks & Minerals | Date: March 1, 2007 | Copyright information

In November 2006, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science unveiled a reconstructed 37 x 25-inch aquamarine pocket in its Coors Gem and Mineral Hall. The pocket was found by prospecter Steve Brancato in July 2004 on Mount Antero in Chaffee County, Colorado. (For details on the recovery of the pocket and photos of some of the aquamarine crystals, see Rocks & Minerals, May/June 2005.) Not intact on ...

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