Sulfur

specimen number:
2063813

location:
Maybee Quarry, Monroe Co., Michigan, USA

description:
Really choice for this locality, a lustrous slightly translucent brilliant yellow large crystal of native sulfur. Crystallized completely all around with very little attached matrix on the backside, this is in good condition. The specimen comes with a previous label from the collection of Ray DeMark. Collected by Ed Reynolds and Gail Deck in April, 1999.

The Maybee Quarry, situated in Monroe County, Michigan, excavated Silurian-aged Dundee Limestone and Detroit River Group dolostones for commercial aggregate production. Within the cavity systems and vugs of these sedimentary formations, secondary mineralizing solutions deposited some of the finest native sulfur specimens in North America alongside exceptional celestine and calcite crystals. The native sulfur formed through the reduction of ancient sulfate minerals or the interaction of organic matter with sulfur-bearing fluids within the bedrock. Though commercial quarrying operations altered the site over decades, Maybee achieved legendary status among mineral collectors for yielding brilliant, canary-yellow sulfur crystals that remain prized centerpieces in regional and systematic mineral collections.

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