AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Maine > Meionite and Diopside |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 73318 |
Mineral: | Meionite and Diopside |
Locality: | Berry Ledge, Cornish, York County, Maine |
Description: | Lustrous translucent green diopside crystals to 1 mm and elongated translucent white meionite crystals to 10 mm lining cavity surfaces in a dense mass of diopside-meionite. The diopside and meionite crystals were exposed by dissolving enclosing calcite. From my personal collection; collected ca. 1994 |
Overall Size: | 15x13x7 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-10.0 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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