Dwarves' Earth Treasures: Datolites from the mine pits of Isle Royale of Michigan

Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online Museum:
Isle Royale Datolites
From the old mines and offshore areas of Isle Royale, Michigan
Field-collecting Status: National Park, No Collecting!
Isle Royale datolites can be obtained only from old collections.

. It appears that few people visited Isle Royale island in the past and collected some datolites from the mine pits before the federal government placed a ban on any rock collecting on the island. The old collection of datolites from the pits of Isle Royale recently showed up and I was able to obtain few datolites from it. Most datolites seem to be white with pink centers and few coming with orange, salmon and yellow colors.
Also, some people collected a bunch of datolites while scuba-diving before the ban was in full effect and many colorless to light green datolites with prehnite inclusions were collected while few bright-colored datolites were found.

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Supposedly collected before the ban on rock collecting was enforced. Its rough back did not match with any datolites from Keweenaw Peninsula.	One of many datolites collected during the scuba diving offshore Isle Royale




Offshore of Isle Royale	Yellow color