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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 60524 |
| Mineral: | Sylvanite on Quartz |
| Locality: | Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado |
| Description: | Elongated silver-metallic sylvanite crystals to 6 mm on translucent gray quartz crystals to 1 mm. The sylvanite crystals are slender columnar form and show slight post-crystallization deformation resulting in twisted or curved crystals. Ex. B. Gaber collection #592; ex. Paul Pohwat collection #582 (Mineral Collection Manager at Smithsonian) |
| Overall Size: | 25x22x12 mm |
| Crystals: | 0.2-6.0 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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