| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Massachusetts > Quartz with phantom-growth zoning |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 78465 |
| Mineral: | Quartz with phantom-growth zoning |
| Locality: | Lane's Quarry, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts |
| Description: | Lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals with internal phantom-growth zones where an earlier generation of quartz crystal was overgrown with white microcrystals of an unknown mineral, then was encapsulated with later quartz overgrowth. Collected by P. Young ca. 1962 |
| Overall Size: | 29x22x15 mm |
| Crystals: | 3-12 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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