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Photos recently added to NH species galleries, set #40. Specimens from the Keyes Mine, Orange, NH. |
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Species: HYDROXYLHERDERITE Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 3 mm field of view. Limonite coated Hydroxylherderite clusters enclosing tabular fluorapatite. Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: u1358 Notes: |
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Species: HYDROXYLHERDERITE Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 3 mm field of view. Hydroxylherderite cluster rosettes. Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: u1358 Notes: |
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Species: HYDROXYLHERDERITE Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 2.5 mm Hydroxylherderite crystal. Field Collected: Dana Jewell - 1986 Catalog No.: u1362 Notes: |
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Species: HYDROXYLHERDERITE Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen, 8 mm zoom view. Carpet of iron oxide stained Hydroxylherderite crystals. Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: u1361 Notes: Full specimen view is a natural sunlight photo. |
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Species: MUSCOVITE Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 6 mm field of view. Muscovite crystals with iron-stained rims. Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: u1361 Notes: |
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Species: FLOUORAPATITE on Hydroxylherderite Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 10 mm field of view. Powder-blue cluster of fluorapatite crystals on bed of hydroxylherderite Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: u1363 Notes: |
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Species: ALBITE Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 5 mm albite crystal Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: u1363 Notes: |
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Species: SIDERITE Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 2 cm field of view. Tan, scallop-shell habit, siderite crystals on quartz crystals. Zoom view, 8mm field of view. Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: GARNET Locality: Keyes #1 Mine, Orange, NH Specimen Size: 7 mm garnet crystal in tourmaline-feldspar matrix. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: Notes: This garnet may be either the almandine or spessartine species. The smaller garnets are very pink, so perhaps spessartine. The tourmaline, under magnification, has some brown transparency, so may be dravite. |