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Actinolite var. Byssolite with Pyrite and Magnetite from French Creek Iron Mines, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania

 
Actinolite var. Byssolite with Pyrite and Magnetite from French Creek Iron Mines, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Actinolite var. Byssolite with Pyrite and Magnetite from French Creek Iron Mines, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Actinolite var. Byssolite with Pyrite and Magnetite from French Creek Iron Mines, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Actinolite var. Byssolite with Pyrite and Magnetite from French Creek Iron Mines, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Actinolite var. Byssolite with Pyrite and Magnetite from French Creek Iron Mines, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania

DESCRIPTION:No. 74770
Mineral:Actinolite var. Byssolite with Pyrite and Magnetite
Locality:French Creek Iron Mines, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Description:Lustrous transparent green hair-like actinolite crystals (variety: byssolite) to 10 mm in rectangular pseudomorphic molds after another mineral with scattered yellow-metallic octahedral pyrite crystals to 1 mm and black magnetite on the bottom surface. Collected ca. 1970
Overall Size:8x6x3 cm
Crystals:micro to 10 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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