Salida, CO Elks Lodge Collection The Elks Club in Salida, Colorado housed a display of several diverse mineral suites from Leadville, Bisbee, the Tri-State district and others, many with historic labels affixed to the specimens. The club decided to dispose of the collection, and we bought it this spring (2014).

This is an end-cut solid chunk of silver from Aspen. This style of silver is pretty distinctive from Aspen. It is likely from the Smuggler mine, but I can’t be certain. It is basically a mass of tiny wiry crystals of silver cemented with massive acanthite. Pretty good ore.