AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New York > Clinochlore, Chondrodite and Magnetite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 81991 |
Mineral: | Clinochlore, Chondrodite and Magnetite |
Locality: | Tilly Foster Iron Mine, near Brewster, Putnam County, New York |
Description: | Classic combination of lustrous transparent dark-red chondrodite crystals to 5 mm with columnar greenish-gray mica-like clinochlore crystals to 5 mm and dark gray-metallic dodecahedral magnetite crystals to 9 mm with light-colored serpentine. Ex. University of Arizona collection No. 2226; originally acquired from Wards. This mine closed in 1897 after a tragic mine collapse. |
Overall Size: | 11x8.5x6.5 cm |
Crystals: | 1-9 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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