AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Quartz, Fluorite, Sphalerite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 63515 |
Mineral: | Quartz, Fluorite, Sphalerite |
Locality: | railroad cut near Thomaston Dam, Litchfield County, Connecticut |
Description: | Double-sided cluster of lustrous transparent gray quartz crystals to 10 mm with etched transparent purple-to-gray partial fluorite crystals to 5 mm and scattered black sphalerite crystals to 1 mm on sulfide-rich matrix. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection, collected in the 1970s by a construction worker at the site. |
Overall Size: | 35x22x18 mm |
Crystals: | 0.5-10.0 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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