Another interesting piece of manganese with decaying quartz, covered with thousands of tiny pyrite cubes and some other colored metals, trace copper and gold.

Quartz host rock with metal streaks? possibly chalcopyrite, pyrite, copper and gold?

Silver colored cubes on host rock, I believe these are arsenopyrite cubes.

Chalcopyrite with possible gold and copper.

Quartz host rock with metal streaks? possibly chalcopyrite, pyrite, copper and gold?

This rock has several holes where some mineral has decayed out of the rock, the below pic is a close up of an unidentified crystal still in the rock.

Manganese with pyrite, gold and copper.

Manganese with pyrite, gold and copper.

Malachite and azurite? Tim Heafner specimen and photo.

Barite crystals? Tim Heafner specimen and photo.

Barite crystals? Tim Heafner specimen and photo.

Four more buckets of material still to clean. I'll add more pics as they get cleaned. A big thank you to Sam and Edie and Jeff and Tina for making this trip happen!

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