AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Peru > Quartz with Pyrite and Chalcopyrite on Sphalerite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 70259 |
Mineral: | Quartz with Pyrite and Chalcopyrite on Sphalerite |
Locality: | Animon Mine, Huaron District, Pasco Department, Peru |
Description: | Sparkling cluster of lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 45 mm with lustrous yellow-metallic cubic pyrite crystals to 7 mm and yellow-metallic chalcopyrite crystals to 20 mm with partial sphalerite coating over a core of black sphalerite. |
Overall Size: | 11x9x6 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 45 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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