I can't resist sharing with you all that wonderful discovery, putting together Mark Twain, Lady Nicotine and a German mineral name (or is it?): www.twainquotes.com/interviews/Idler1892.html Go to Chapter III. Flirting with the Lady Nicotine
This is definetly a shot in the dark but if there is anyone here who has rockhounded in washington state, preferably eastern washington, would you please give site locations and any info that you have. Thank you.