A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Siderite with quartz |
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| Description | This specimen contains mostly brown siderite, FeCO3 (iron carbonate). Siderite belongs to the calcite group, a group of carbonate minerals with similar atomic arrangements and properties. The white veins in this 9 cm wide sample contain quartz. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-20. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1777. |
| Key words | siderite |
| Tech details | 507 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 804 |
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