Sphalerite, 10045


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Description

Numerous crystals of very dark red (nearly black), adamantine, roughly tetrahedral sphalerite on colorless to white quartz drusy, all on a thick layer of gray, metallic, cubo-octahedral galena. The quartz appears to have formed around cubic fluorite forming large squared voids or casts in which the sphalerite crystals formed.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists