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Phenakite with Muscovite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

 
Phenakite with Muscovite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

Phenakite with Muscovite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

Phenakite with Muscovite from Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

DESCRIPTION:No. 74722
Mineral:Phenakite with Muscovite
Locality:Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado
Description:Lustrous transparent gray phenakite crystal with a muscovite mica crystals on the bottom where it was attached. The phenakite crystal has many microscopic inclusions of an unknown brown mineral visible inside (goethite?). Collected ca. 1985
Overall Size:11x7x6 mm
Crystals:1-6 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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