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Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite from Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

 
Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite from Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite from Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite from Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite from Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite from Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite from Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

DESCRIPTION:No. 70111
Mineral:Elbaite Tourmaline on Quartz with Cookeite
Locality:Mount Mica Quarry, Pocket 11-2005, Paris, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)
Description:Lustrous transparent pale-green 19 mm elbaite tourmaline crystal on transparent colorless-to-smoky quartz crystals to 65 mm with crusts of white cookeite microcrystals that have molds after other elbaite crystals that are now missing. See: http://coromotominerals.com/MM05JulyAugustPage2.html
Overall Size:6.5x4.5x3 cm
Crystals:micro to 65 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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