AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Wurtzite and Galena on Quartz with Fluorite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 63517 |
Mineral: | Wurtzite and Galena on Quartz with Fluorite |
Locality: | railroad cut near Thomaston Dam, Litchfield County, Connecticut |
Description: | Lustrous gray-metallic cubic galena crystals to 3 mm and small dark-gray metallic wurtzite crystals to 2 mm, which may be sphalerite pseudomorphs after wurtzite, on translucent gray quartz crystals and translucent greenish-gray fluorite crystals to 2 mm. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection, collected in the 1970s by a construction worker at the site. |
Overall Size: | 4x2.5x2 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-3.0 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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