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 a much better cuprite specimen than the other in the collection, but the label isn’t as nice. This one just states the obvious “cuprite red copper”. Brilliant cuprite octahedral are associated with black spheres of what I believe to be delafossite.