| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Peru > Sphalerite over Quartz, Galena, Pyrite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 63280 |
| Mineral: | Sphalerite over Quartz, Galena, Pyrite |
| Locality: | Manuelita Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Peru |
| Description: | Rich cluster of large transparent red-brown sphalerite crystals to 12 mm almost completely covering slender translucent colorless quartz crystals to 20 mm with scattered yellow-metallic pyrite crystals to 1 mm and gray-metallic galena crystals to 5 mm. |
| Overall Size: | 8x8x4 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-20 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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