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Mineral Specimen No. 327:
Muscovite with oriented magnetite, rutile, hematite inclusions from 93rd Street at Riverside Drive, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York County, New York.

Description of Mineral Specimen for sale No. 327:

Mineral Species: Muscovite with oriented magnetite, rutile, hematite inclusions.
Location of origin: 93rd Street at Riverside Drive, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York County, New York.
Description: Ten thin cleavages of transparent gray-brown muscovite mica crystals with oriented inclusions of black magnetite with minor red hematite and black rutile. Collected ca. 1900. Reference: Frondel, Clifford (1936) Oriented Inclusions of Tourmaline in Muscovite, American Mineralogist, vol. 21, pp. 777-799.
Overall size: 7.5x6 cm average.

Mineral Muscovite with oriented magnetite, rutile, hematite inclusions for sale from 93rd Street at Riverside Drive, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York County, New York

Detail view of mineral Muscovite with oriented magnetite, rutile, hematite inclusions for sale from 93rd Street at Riverside Drive, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York County, New York

Detail view of mineral Muscovite with oriented magnetite, rutile, hematite inclusions for sale from 93rd Street at Riverside Drive, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York County, New York

Detail view of mineral Muscovite with oriented magnetite, rutile, hematite inclusions for sale from 93rd Street at Riverside Drive, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York County, New York

from the author's private collection of minerals from New York City.

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