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Quartz and ore

Description: Several samples. In small, clear bag is a poor specimen of coarse, pegmatitic quartz with coarse muscovite. Also micaceous Manx Group host with veins of milky quartz and very weatherd, bright orange ?dolomite. Sample of very altered, micaceous Manx Group country rock with a vein of anhedral, milky quartz up to 5cm wide, with weathered, anhedral ?sphalerite. In large plastic bag there are several samples of vein material of milky quartz, dolomite and chalcopyrite. Single sample of euhedral sparry vein quartz.

Taxonomic name: Manx Group: quartz vein and dolomite and ?sphalerite

Collection: Natural History Geology Collection

ID number: 1976-0178

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