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Melonite with Fluorite from Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado

 
Melonite with Fluorite from Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado

Melonite with Fluorite from Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado

Melonite with Fluorite from Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado

Melonite with Fluorite from Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado

Melonite with Fluorite from Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado

Melonite with Fluorite from Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado

DESCRIPTION:No. 69248
Mineral:Melonite with Fluorite
Locality:Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado
Description:Lustrous metallic melonite crystals in shallow cavities and veins with transparent purple fluorite microcrystals in quartz-rich matrix with transparent yellow microcrystals of an unidentified mineral. Ex. Georg Gebhard (author of Tsumeb I and II)
Overall Size:5x4x2 cm
Crystals:micro to 1.5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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