AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Mexico > Dolomite over Calcite with Quartz |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 58693 |
Mineral: | Dolomite over Calcite with Quartz |
Locality: | Naica District, Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico |
Description: | Pale-pink silky dolomite crystals to 1 mm in epitactic parallel orientation overgrown on rhombohedral calcite crystals to 20 mm with lustrous translucent colorless quartz crystals to 3 mm plus scattered small crystals of dark sulfide minerals. |
Overall Size: | 7x5x5 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 20 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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