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Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Malachite from Sneech Pond, Copper Mine Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island

 
Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Malachite from Sneech Pond, Copper Mine Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island

Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Malachite from Sneech Pond, Copper Mine Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island

DESCRIPTION:No. 50871
Mineral:Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Malachite
Locality:Sneech Pond, Copper Mine Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island
Description:Two specimens of metallic chalcopyrite on crystallized transparent prismatic epidote (or actinolite?) crystals to 0.5 mm with minor green malachite from the old mine site that was a long-closed locality when Robinson wrote of it in 1825. Ex. Peter B. Nalle (1923-2010) collection #217, collected August 1938
Overall Size:4x2.5x2 cm and 2x2x2 cm
Crystals:0.5 mm
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