Radical Rocks

Minerals of Pikes Peak Colorado Pikes Peak when seen from the “Garden of the Gods” is a majestic and beautiful site to behold. This area is a famous rockhounding area that attracts serious collectors and scientist from all over the world to this mineral diverse area. There a many area and collecting spots covering the Colorado Front Range that includes the Pikes Peak Region. These areas go near Colorado Springs on the south to west of Denver to the north. This area mostly a large mass of granite that covers about 1,200 square miles. Areas that cracked and were refilled through time have left cone formations, and at times continued out to form a skin of minerals or fine grained granite, through this process many crystals may be formed, within the boundaries   of these cones and the ring shaped zones around the edges of an intrusive center. These pockets are called “miarolitic cavities” and those are the cavities we like, and we get to be the dentist that does the extracting! ...