AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Colorado > Phenakite twinned crystals |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 76894 |
Mineral: | Phenakite twinned crystals |
Locality: | Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado |
Description: | Uncommonly large transparent-to-translucent colorless phenakite crystals with minor muscovite included in the bottom where they were attached. The phenakite crystals are interpenetrant twinned, rotated on the C-axis (drill bit-habit twinned). Collected ca. 1985 |
Overall Size: | 23x20x19 mm |
Crystals: | 20 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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