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Description: Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Sphalerite Locality: Groundhog Mine, Vanadium, Central District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 6.1 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm. An old-time, superb, mounded combination piece from the Groundhog Mine at Vanadium, New Mexico. Mirror-bright, striated, brassy and lightly iridescent chalcopyrite crystals are richly and aesthetically scattered on a porcupine-like forest of water-clear quartz needles. Ex. Stoudt Collection and according to label and their catalogue, this piece dates to circa 1956.
Title: Chalcopyrite-Quartz-Sphalerite-197930
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