AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Peru > Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite |
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DESCRIPTION: | No. 71999 |
Mineral: | Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite |
Locality: | Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru |
Description: | Many slender lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 24 mm on octahedral Spinel-Law twinned black sphalerite crystals to 7 mm with tan0colored opaque rhombic calcite crystals to 1 mm in between the quartz crystals. Collected ca. 1990 |
Overall Size: | 4.5x3.5x3.5 cm |
Crystals: | 1-24 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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