AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Maine > Quartz (Dauphiné-law twinned) with epimorphic casts |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 62039 |
Mineral: | Quartz (Dauphiné-law twinned) with epimorphic casts |
Locality: | Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine |
Description: | Lustrous transparent pale-smoky quartz crystal with rectangular epimorphic casts after a mineral that dissolved. The quartz crystal is thin, tabular form twinned following the Dauphine Law of quartz twinning as indicated by the etched surface patterns. |
Overall Size: | 5.5x3.5x1 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-55.0 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.