| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New York > Millerite on Quartz with Dolomite and Stilpnomelane |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 44496 |
| Mineral: | Millerite on Quartz with Dolomite and Stilpnomelane |
| Locality: | Sterling Mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York |
| Description: | Brassy acicular millerite crystals to 12 mm long in sprays nestled deep in a quartz-lined cavity with translucent yellow-gray ferroan-dolomite crystals to 5 mm and rosettes to 2 mm diameter of bronze-colored stilpnomelane crystals. Ex. Henry D. Miller (1838-1919 or 1920) collection, (see Final Disposition Of Some American Collections Of Minerals, Frederick A. Canfield, 1923), bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1909; ex. Loomis-Chaffee School |
| Overall Size: | 8x6.5x3.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 0.5-12.0 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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