I found this on the Buckwheat Dump this summer (1999) after churning up quite a bit of soil and rocks with my prybar and folding shovel. Naturally, this piece is what you get after careful trimming of weathered surfaces... things this nice don't just jump into your bucket when you're collecting! This piece is about five or six inches across. Here we have a fairly thick vein of fluorescent sphalerite sitting atop fluorescent calcite, with some specks of willemite that are not visible here. The calcite also has franklinite grains dispersed throughout (the black spots). The colors as photographed are pretty accurate. Another example of the treasures you can still find on the Buckwheat Dump... if you have patience and lose the attitude of "it's not like it was back in the old days".  I mean, sure it's not like 1959 when you could cart 200-lb boulders away in your station wagon, but you can still find nice specimens with a little work. Light used: Superbright 2000SW. Film and camera settings: Shop Rite 400 speed film; f-stop of 5.6; exposure time 2 seconds. I didn't need to adjust the gamma on this one when I scanned it, either. Before I started using a digital cam, I always used Shop-Rite film developing to the exclusion of all other types.  That made the skin crawl of every shutterbug I knew.  I loved it. Back