AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Maine > Cookeite (rare purple) with Quartz

Search
 

Online Mineral Museum Archive of Mineral Photographs and Mineral Descriptions from John Betts - Fine Minerals.com and Allminerals.com

   

Cookeite (rare purple) with Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

 
Cookeite (rare purple) with Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Cookeite (rare purple) with Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Cookeite (rare purple) with Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 56379
Mineral:Cookeite (rare purple) with Quartz
Locality:Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine
Description:Pearly translucent purple cookeite crystals to 0.2 mm intermixed with lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 1.5 mm in elongated platy formations that formed in cavities where petalite crystals dissolved leaving a void. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection
Overall Size:10.5x6x5 cm
Crystals:0.1-1.5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

© AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals All Rights Reserved

The minerals illustrated on this site are presented for reference purposes only. The owner of this site did not collect the minerals and collectors should not assume access is permitted to the property based on inclusion in this museum. Please contact the property owner to obtain legal permission before entering private property. ;