AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Colorado > Sphalerite (Spinel-law twinned crystals) with Galena, Quartz, Barite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 45114 |
Mineral: | Sphalerite (Spinel-law twinned crystals) with Galena, Quartz, Barite |
Locality: | Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado |
Description: | Lustrous black Spinel-law twinned sphalerite crystals to 15 mm across with gray-metallic cubo-octahedral galena crystals to 12 mm across, translucent colorless quartz crystals to 6 mm, and brown-white barite microcrystals. Ex. R. Theodore Hurr collection |
Overall Size: | 4.5x4.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 15 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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