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Chrysocolla with Quartz overgrowth from Twin Buttes Mine, Pima County, Arizona

 
Chrysocolla with Quartz overgrowth from Twin Buttes Mine, Pima County, Arizona

Chrysocolla with Quartz overgrowth from Twin Buttes Mine, Pima County, Arizona

Chrysocolla with Quartz overgrowth from Twin Buttes Mine, Pima County, Arizona

DESCRIPTION:No. 60056
Mineral:Chrysocolla with Quartz overgrowth
Locality:Twin Buttes Mine, Pima County, Arizona
Description:Large specimen of blue to blue-green chrysocolla in spherical botryoidal aggregates to 12 mm diameter lining several cavities. The chrysocolla in several cavities is overgrown with lustrous colorless quartz microcrystals. Collected ca. 1970
Overall Size:20x16x10 cm
Crystals:micro to 0.5 mm
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