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Very coarse quartz and muscovite vein

Description: Coarse crystals of quartz and muscovite. Some sub-hedral quartz crystals suggest the minerals crystallised in a vug/cavity. Some of the muscovite is associated with a black, fine powder (manganese?). Part of Dr Gerhard Bersu's 1940 excavation for manganese.

Taxonomic name: Manx Group: quartz and muscovite pegmatite

Collection: Natural History Geology Collection

ID number: 1966-0033/25

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