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Phenakite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

 
Phenakite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

Phenakite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

Phenakite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

DESCRIPTION:No. 73275
Mineral:Phenakite
Locality:Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado
Description:Lustrous transparent colorless-gray phenakite crystal with no matrix attached. The phenakite crystal has many microscopic inclusions of an unknown brown mineral visible inside (goethite?). Collected ca. 1985
Overall Size:9x7x6 mm
Crystals:9 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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