AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Missouri > Calcite on Pyrite, Galena, Dolomite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 76596 |
Mineral: | Calcite on Pyrite, Galena, Dolomite |
Locality: | Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri |
Description: | Lustrous transparent-to-translucent yellow calcite crystals to 85 mm on sulfide matrix composed of gray-metallic octahedral galena crystals to 9 mm, yellow-metallic cubic pyrite crystals to 1 mm and colorless rhombic dolomite crystals to 0.8 mm. Collected in 1997 |
Overall Size: | 10x7x6 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 85 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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