AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Rhode Island > Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Malachite |
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 |
Archived: | For reference only |
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