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Quartz (parallel growth) and Cookeite over Milky Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

 
Quartz (parallel growth) and Cookeite over Milky Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Quartz (parallel growth) and Cookeite over Milky Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Quartz (parallel growth) and Cookeite over Milky Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Quartz (parallel growth) and Cookeite over Milky Quartz from Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 73074
Mineral:Quartz (parallel growth) and Cookeite over Milky Quartz
Locality:Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine
Description:Many parallel lustrous doubly-terminated transparent pale-smoky quartz crystals to 18 mm on a 55 mm milky quartz crystal with play aggregates of smaller translucent white doubly-terminated quartz crystals to 5 mm and tan colored cookeite microcrystals. From the collection of Frank C. Perham (b. 1934-), namesake of the mineral species Perhamite
Overall Size:7.5x4.5x4 cm
Crystals:micro to 55 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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