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Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite from Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

 
Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite from Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite from Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite from Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite from Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite from Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

Quartz on Sphalerite with Calcite from Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

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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