A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Sphalerite with K-feldspar and muscovite, Red Hill Mine, Maine |
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| Description | This sample contains coarse dark brown sphalerite (Zn,Fe)S, books of silvery muscovite mica, and salmon colored K-felspar. It comes from a well know pegmatite mine in southern Maine and is 12 cm across. Sphalerite comes in many colors; this dark brown variety is one of the commoner ones. |
| Location | USA ▹ Maine. Near Rumford. Red Hill Mine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-10. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1721. |
| Key words | sphalerite, feldspar, muscovite, Maine |
| Tech details | 668 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1093 |
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