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Quartz (Tessin habit) with Magnesite from Becker Quarry, West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut

 
Quartz (Tessin habit) with Magnesite from Becker Quarry, West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut

Quartz (Tessin habit) with Magnesite from Becker Quarry, West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut

Quartz (Tessin habit) with Magnesite from Becker Quarry, West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut

Quartz (Tessin habit) with Magnesite from Becker Quarry, West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut

DESCRIPTION:No. 73359
Mineral:Quartz (Tessin habit) with Magnesite
Locality:Becker Quarry, West Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut
Description:Part of a narrow vein with the walls lined with lustrous transparent Tessin-habit quartz crystals (repeatedly alternating termination and prism faces forming stepped, tapered crystals) to 12 mm with translucent gray rhombic magnesite crystals to 4 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:4x4x2.5 cm
Crystals:0.5-12.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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