AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Massachusetts > Wulfenite on Quartz |
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DESCRIPTION: | No. 12693 |
Mineral: | Wulfenite on Quartz |
Locality: | Manhan Lead Mines, Loudville District, 3 km northwest of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts |
Description: | Crusty white matrix of quartz with several scattered 1 mm orange wulfenite crystals. The matrix is quartz pseudomorph after barite and is well formed and distinct. See the recent article on this old mine in Rocks and Minerals magazine, March/April 2001. |
Overall Size: | 7x4x4 cm |
Crystals: | 1 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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