A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Zunyite |
|---|---|
| Description | Zunyite, Al13O4(Si5O16)(OH,F)18Cl is a mineral chemically related to topaz, and structurally related to zoisite and lawsonite. Here it exists as small transparent gray-colorless glassy crystals in an altered rock from New Mexico. Zunyite most often occurs in highly aluminous metasedimentary rocks. It may be colorless, gray-white, pink, or reddish white. This specimen is about 5 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ New Mexico. Near Gallup. Zuni Mountains. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-03-26. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1877. |
| Key words | zunyite |
| Tech details | 695 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 246 |
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