AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New York > Quartz |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 79974 |
Mineral: | Quartz |
Locality: | railroad cut on eastern shore of Hudson River, between Schodack Landing and Poolsburg, Columbia County, New York |
Description: | Cluster of several intersecting lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals recovered from a fracture vein in Ordovician bedrock next to the railroad tracks. This is one of two small quartz cluster I kept for myself from this little-known find. Personally collected ca. 1994 |
Overall Size: | 38x30x22 mm |
Crystals: | 3-13 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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