AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Quartz (Tessin habit) with Ankerite and Muscovite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 73358 |
Mineral: | Quartz (Tessin habit) with Ankerite and Muscovite |
Locality: | Becker Quarry, West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut |
Description: | Lustrous transparent Tessin-habit quartz crystals (repeatedly alternating termination and prism faces forming stepped, tapered crystals) to 8 mm with translucent brown rhombohedral ankerite crystals to 3 mm and platy muscovite crystals to 2 mm. From my personal collection #646; collected at the LMSCC field trip ca. 1995. See article The Remarkable Quartz Crystals of West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut in Rocks and Minerals v.78 #4 |
Overall Size: | 5x3.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-8.0 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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