Wallace Stone Company Quarry, Pigeon, Huron County, Michigan

A very nice MIllerite from Michigan. Collected by Ron Aldridge in November, 2009. Here in Michigan, the quarry is better known as the Bayport Quarry. Bayport is the closest town of any size and is in the ""Thumb"" of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The area is also known for its vast farms of sugar beets. To get to the quarry, one passes by huge piles of beets at the Pioneer Sugar Plant. The quarry is also noted for a particularly nice form of Calcite. Locally called Root Beer Calcite, it is dark brown with iridescence (although recently I saw a piece of light brown Calcite with purple iridecesnce). The second picture is just a blowup of the first.

3 x 3 x 1.5 cm

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