Curved QUARTZ
Altoona Area Quarries
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QUARTZ (Japan-law twin) with LUINAITE-(OH)
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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Radial LUINAITE-(OH) clusters on QUARTZ
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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QUARTZ (Japan-law twin) with perched LUINAITE-(OH)
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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Iridescent GOETHITE coating LUINAITE-(OH)
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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QUARTZ with delicate, green sprays of LUINAITE-(OH)
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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Tabular QUARTZ crystal with LUINAITE-(OH) inclusions
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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Lustrous bladed STIBNITE with radial LUINAITE-(OH) and minor QUARTZ
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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Submetallic black FERBERITE with LUINAITE-(OH) on QUARTZ matrix
Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle)
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Drusy QUARTZ spheres on ropey CLINOCHLORE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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CALCITE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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STILBITE amygdule in basalt
Beaver Valley Quarry
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Drusy QUARTZ with light-green jasper
Beaver Valley Quarry
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Flower of CALCITE on CLINOCHLORE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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COPPER wire on CLINOCHLORE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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UNIDENTIFIED mineral #1 on black CLINOCHLORE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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CALCITE on CLINOCHLORE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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CHABAZITE (phacolite-twinned) with minor COPPER
Beaver Valley Quarry
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mineral #2
Beaver Valley Quarry
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LEVYNE amygdules in basalt
Beaver Valley Quarry
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Complex COPPER wire on CLINOCHLORE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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COPPER wire on light-green botryoidal clay matrix
Beaver Valley Quarry
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HEULANDITE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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CALCITE crystallized as a spherical aggregate of small crystals
Beaver Valley Quarry
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Dogtooth CALCITE on STILBITE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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Crystalline COPPER on CLINOCHLORE
Beaver Valley Quarry
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ANDRADITE garnet
Bessemer Ridge
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HEMATITE and QUARTZ pseudomporph after unidentified mineral EPIDOTE ?
Bessemer Ridge
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QUARTZ and HEMATITE pseudomporph after unidentified mineral EPIDOTE ?
Bessemer Ridge
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Spherical COWLESITE on CHLORITE
Big Tree Creek
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Tabular EPISTILBITE
Big Tree Creek
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SMITHSONITE
Black Rock Mine
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Black MAGNESIO-HASTINGSITE phenocryst in light gray volcanic matrix
Black Tuesday Claim
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Black MAGNESIO-HASTINGSITE phenocryst in light gray volcanic matrix
Black Tuesday Claim
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Dogtooth CALCITE with partial opal coating (fluorescent under ultraviolet light)
Black Tuesday Claim
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STILPNOMELANE in matrix QUARTZ
Blanchard Hill
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STILPNOMELANE in matrix QUARTZ and green chert
Blanchard Hill
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CALCITE flat rhombohedron
Cadman High Rock Quarry
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PYRITE coating CALCITE and drusy QUARTZ
Cadman Quarry
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CALCITE flat rhombohedra on CALCITE pseudomorphs after prismatic ARAGONITE
Cadman Quarry
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CALCITE
Cadman Quarry
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Banded blue-gray QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony)
Cadman Quarry
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CALCITE and QUARTZ with (CALCITE + QUARTZ) pseudomorphs aft ARAGONITE
Cadman Quarry
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Blue-gray drusy QUARTZ with CALCITE
Cadman Quarry
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CALCITE and QUARTZ pseudomorph after ARAGONITE
Cadman Quarry
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CALCITE (twinned)
Capitol Forest Quarries
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CHABAZITE (penetration-twinned)
Capitol Forest Quarries
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CHABAZITE (multiple penetration-twinned)
Capitol Forest Quarries
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MORDENITE
Capitol Forest Quarries
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MORDENITE with Fe-silicate clay
Capitol Forest Quarries
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Bluish-gray THOMSONITE-Ca spheres on ANALCIME druse
Capitol Forest Quarries
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COWLESITE spheres within basalt amygdule
Capitol Forest Quarries
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Globular PYRITE with white CALCITE
Capitol Forest Quarries
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Stacked spheres of THOMSONITE-Ca
Capitol Forest Quarries
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Slightly amethystine QUARTZ crystal with hopper along prism face
Cedar Ponds
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Slightly amethystine QUARTZ exhibiting Muzo habit
Cedar Ponds
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Sceptered QUARTZ cluster
Clipper View Claim
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QUARTZ scepter with cubic PYRITE inclusion
reflected in all six termination faces
Clipper View Claim
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ
Clipper View Claim
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ with fluorescent phantom under short-wave ultraviolet light
Clipper View Claim
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GOETHITE pseudomorph after SIDERITE on QUARTZ
Clipper View Claim
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QUARTZ cluster with scepters
Clipper View Claim
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QUARTZ scepter on matrix
Clipper View Claim
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QUARTZ cluster with scepter and micro sulfide inclusions
Clipper View Claim
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QUARTZ cluster with fluorescent phantoms under short-wave ultraviolet light
Clipper View Claim
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Double-terminated QUARTZ cluster (floater) with fluorescent inclusions
Clipper View Claim
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Sceptered QUARTZ cluster with SIDERITE inclusions
Clipper View Claim
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QUARTZ cluster with balls of dark green CHLINOCHLORE and inclusions of BYSSOLITE
Condor Claim
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Partially coated BOURNONITE with SPHALERITE and QUARTZ
Coney Basin Mine
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Lustrous crude hexagonal MOLYBDENITE crystals in massive white QUARTZ
Crown Point Mine
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Oxidized cubic GALENA on matrix
Crown Point Mine
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Sharp euhedral MOLYBDENITE on QUARTZ
Crown Point Mine
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Cluster of AUTUNITE with META-AUTUNITE rims
Daybreak Mine
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AUTUNITE cluster with META-AUTUNITE rims
Daybreak Mine
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"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter containing inclusions of HEMATITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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K FELDSPAR (Var: Adularia) with GROSSULAR garnet and minor EPIDOTE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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GROSSULAR garnet and naturally etched CALCITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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HEMATITE "rose"
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Terminated radial EPIDOTE spray
with perched QUARTZ
Denny Mountain Skarn
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"Raspberry" QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE inclusions and rosettes
Denny Mountain Skarn
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"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter with HEMATITE inclusions
Denny Mountain Skarn
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"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter cluster containing inclusions of HEMATITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Double-terminated Japan-law twin QUARTZ on matrix
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Fluorescent SCHEELITE on skarn matrix
Denny Mountain Skarn
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QUARTZ with green CHLORITE inclusions
and red GROSSULAR garnet
Denny Mountain Skarn
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QUARTZ scepter cluster
Denny Mountain Skarn
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HEDENBERGITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Botryoidal blue OPAL coating a broken QUARTZ crystal
Denny Mountain Skarn
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High quality "raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter containing inclusions of HEMATITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Radiating MALACHITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Double-terminated QUARTZ
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Dipyramidal SCHEELITE with QUARTZ on skarn matrix
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster with PYRITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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SERICITE pseudomorph after EPIDOTE ? with small crystals of QUARTZ
Denny Mountain Skarn
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QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE inclusions
Denny Mountain Skarn
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CHLORITE included QUARTZ with SIDERITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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CHRYSOCOLLA coating Japan-law twin QUARTZ
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Sceptered QUARTZ cluster with HEMATITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Complex micro-sceptered QUARTZ cluster (slight amethyst) with minor CHLORITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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Complex sceptered QUARTZ cluster with strange truncated terminations and overgrowth with CHLORITE inclusions and SERICITE
Denny Mountain Skarn
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QUARTZ cluster with three-eared Japan-law twin
Denny Mountain Skarn
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AUGITE phenocryst in tuffaceous matrix
Doty Hills
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AUGITE phenocrysts looking down the b-axis
left: {100} twinned crystal
right: monoclinic crystal
Doty Hills
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AUGITE {100} twinned crystal with distinct overgrowth zoning
Doty Hills
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NATROLITE cluster
Doty Hills
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Red SPHALERITE on SIDERITE
Dutch Miller Gap
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QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - "Ellensburg Blue"
Ellensburg Area
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Polished QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - "Ellensburg Blue"
Ellensburg Area
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QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - Botryoidal "Ellensburg Blue"
Ellensburg Area
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Smoky QUARTZ with inclusions of ARFVEDSONITE
Golden Horn Batholith
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ARFVEDSONITE
Golden Horn Batholith
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BASTNAESITE-(Ce)
Golden Horn Batholith
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GADOLINITE-(Ce)
Golden Horn Batholith
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BASTNAESITE-(Ce) (not confirmed, visual identification) with MICROCLINE on ARFVEDSONITE
Golden Horn Batholith
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GENTHELVITE
Golden Horn Batholith
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MICROCLINE with ARFVEDSONITE
Golden Horn Batholith
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OKANOGANITE and ZIRCON
Golden Horn Batholith
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ZEKTZERITE
Golden Horn Batholith
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ZEKTZERITE crystal in small miarolitic cavity with matrix ZEKTZERITE in alkali granite
Golden Horn Batholith
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Gemmy QUARTZ (Var: Smoky)
Golden Horn Batholith
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Gemmy QUARTZ (Var: Smoky) with fiery red ASTROPHYLLITE inclusion
Golden Horn Batholith
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RIEBECKITE with asbestiform termination
Golden Horn Batholith
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Rhombohedral SIDERITE with amorphous iron silicate (yellow)
Golden Horn Batholith
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ZIRCON in miarolitic cavity
Golden Horn Batholith
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OKANOGANITE (fourling twin) in miarolitic cavity
Golden Horn Batholith
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Single etched ZEKTZERITE (top of specimen) and single OKANOGANITE crystal (near bottom left of specimen) with
Golden Horn Batholith
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Gemmy faceted ZEKTZERITE crystals
Golden Horn Batholith
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Salmon-colored ELPIDITE in alkali granite with massive ZEKTZERITE
Golden Horn Batholith
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QUARTZ (Var: Smoky) with minor MICROCLINE
Golden Horn Batholith
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Epitaxial AEGERINE extending from ARFVEDSONITE termination on white MICROCLINE
Golden Horn Batholith
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Golden ASTROPHYLLITE with MICROCLINE in a miarolytic cavity within alkali granit
Golden Horn Batholith
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Pink ZEKTZERITE with MICROCLINE
Golden Horn Batholith
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PYROMORPHITE
Grandview Mine
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Brilliant PYRITE intergrown with GOETHITE
Green Ridge Breccia
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Rough and Cut QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst)
Green Ridge Breccia
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QUARTZ with pyritihedral PYRITE inclusion
Green Ridge Breccia
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QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepters on matrix
Green Ridge Breccia
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal
Green Ridge Breccia
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal on QUARTZ cluster
Green Ridge Breccia
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Sceptered QUARTZ cluster
Green Ridge Breccia
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QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) with enhydro
Green Ridge Breccia
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QUARTZ (Var: [light] Smokey)
Green Ridge Breccia
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QUARTZ with fluorescent phanton (under short-wave ultraviolet light)
Green Ridge Breccia
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Sceptered QUARTZ crystal with enhydro
Green Ridge Breccia
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster
Green Ridge Breccia
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Large Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal
Green Ridge Breccia
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Sub-metallic GOETHITE partially coating QUARTZ
Green Ridge Breccia
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Complex PYRITE
Green Ridge Breccia
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QUARTZ scepter (Var: Amethyst) with partial limonite coating
Green Ridge Breccia
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QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter
Hansen Creek
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ANATASE
Hansen Creek
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster
Hansen Creek
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CHRYSOCOLLA
Hansen Creek
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Amethystine QUARTZ scepters
Hansen Creek
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GOETHITE partial pseudomorph after PYRITE
Lower photo shows a close-up of the cube. Small octahedral modifications are visible.
Hansen Creek
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Botryoidal CHRYSOCOLLA
Hansen Creek
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CHALCOPYRITE
Hansen Creek
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RUTILE on dark green CLINOCHLORE
Hansen Creek
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Amethyst QUARTZ scepter.
Base of crystal appears dark in photo
but is clear quartz (not smokey)
Hansen Creek
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Sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst)
Hansen Creek
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"Dumbbell" sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst)
Hansen Creek
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QUARTZ with stacked shortwave fluorescent phantoms
Hansen Creek
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QUARTZ with stacked shortwave fluorescent phantoms
Hansen Creek
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ
Hansen Creek
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FLUORAPATITE with dark green CLINOCHLORE and QUARTZ
Hansen Creek
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QUARTZ with euhedral PYRITE inclusions
Hansen Creek
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Gem sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst)
Hansen Creek
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QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - Carnelian agate
Kalama Area
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QUARTZ cluster on matrix with gemmy scepter
Katie Belle Breccia
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ELECTRUM grains within dark gray bands of NAUMANNITE and white QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony)
Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine)
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Slab of banded Au-Ag ore with NAUMANNITE and QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony)
Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine)
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Rich ELECTRUM grains within dark gray bands of NAUMANNITE and white QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony)
Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine)
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High-grade ore specimen with visible ELECTRUM and possible NAUMANNITE
Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine)
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Banded gold and silver ore specimen with visible ELECTRUM and possible NAUMANNITE
Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine)
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Peach-colored STILBITE
Lewis River Area
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Light orange colored STILBITE cluster with porcelain-like luster
Lewis River Area
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Opaque white/light green APOPHYLLITE "flower"
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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APOPHYLLITE
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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Yellow CALCITE and white STILBITE on basalt matrix
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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Lustrous light green HEULANDITE with STILBITE
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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HEULANDITE with CHLORITE inclusions, APOPHYLLITE
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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Translucent to gemmy HEULANDITE on black CHLORITE matrix
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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White STILBITE on light green APOPHYLLITE
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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Pink HEULANDITE on a bed of white STILBITE
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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STILBITE and a white spray of dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE) on CHLORITE
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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APOPHYLLITE cluster
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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White STILBITE (sheaflike crystals with a dusting of basaltic matrix)
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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Pink HEULANDITE on STILBITE
Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit)
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Zoned copper-bearing AUTUNITE cluster
Midnite Mine
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Copper-bearing AUTUNITE cluster
Midnite Mine
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ
Mount Teneriffe
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ with phantoms
Mount Teneriffe
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Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster
Mount Teneriffe
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Complex Japan-law twin QUARTZ with "double" termination
Mount Teneriffe
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CALCITE clay concretion
North Fork of the Skykomish River
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Clay and CALCITE concretion
North Fork of the Skykomish River
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CALCITE sand and clay concretions
North Fork of the Skykomish River
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CHALCOPYRITE cluster with QUARTZ
Pedro Claim
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QUARTZ with SPHALERITE inclusion?
Pend Oreille Mine
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BARITE druse on CALCITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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Filiform PYRITE with PALYGORSKITE on CALCITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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CALCITE on PLAYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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Floater CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE inclusion
Pend Oreille Mine
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GALENA with CALCITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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Golden BARITE on PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE and minor PYRITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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PYROBITUMEN in matrix
Pend Oreille Mine
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Sheet-like PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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Cabinet-sized CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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SCOLECITE
Pioneer Quarry
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Rhombohedral CALCITE on dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE)
Port Ludlow Area Quarry
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STILBITE
Port Ludlow Area Quarry
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STILBITE and dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE)
Port Ludlow Area Quarry
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CALCITE and THOMSONITE-Ca
Port Ludlow Area Quarry
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Radial color-zoned THOMSONITE-Ca
Port Ludlow Area Quarry
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THOMSONITE-Ca
Radial color-zoned and terminated
Port Ludlow Area Quarry
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Dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE) on CALCITE
Port Ludlow Area Quarry
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ARSENOPYRITE
Quartz Creek Mine (Rainy Mine)
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TALC pseudomorph after ANTHOPHYLLITE ? with COVELLITE
Quartz Creek Mine (Rainy Mine)
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Light bluish-gray TALC pseudomorph after ANTHOPHYLLITE ? with PYRITE and minor QUARTZ
Quartz Creek Mine (Rainy Mine)
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QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper
Rialto Beach
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QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, concentrically zoned
Rialto Beach
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QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, cut and polished
Rialto Beach
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QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, cut and polished detail
Rialto Beach
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ALMANDINE garnet (gemmy pink to orange) and MAGNETITE (dark gray) sand.
Clear sand grains are likely zircon crystals.
Rialto Beach
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Dark-gray, metallic PYROLUSITE (likely combined with other manganese oxides)
found interstitial to QUARTZ (Var: Jasper) - orbicular jasper,
cut and polished
Rialto Beach
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QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, tumble polished
Rialto Beach
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Radiating NATROLITE
Robertson Pit
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Twinned CALCITE perced on NATROLITE
Robertson Pit
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ANALCIME
Robertson Pit
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White APOPHYLLITE and NATROLITE
Robertson Pit
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Radiating NATROLITE cluster
Robertson Pit
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Twinned CALCITE
Robertson Pit
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Radiating NATROLITE on dehydrated ANALCIME
Robertson Pit
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NATROLITE and CALCITE
Robertson Pit
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Radiating NATROLITE cluster on basalt matrix
Robertson Pit
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Gemmy ANALCIME trapezohedron
Robertson Pit
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NATROLITE flower
Robertson Pit
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Golden-yellow CALCITE "speared" with NATROLITE
Robertson Pit
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Radial NATROLITE cluster on a bed of white opaque ANALCIME druse on basalt matrix
Robertson Pit
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Starburst cluster of NATROLITE with translucent blocky APOPHYLLITE crystals
Robertson Pit
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Large NATROLITE cluster
Robertson Pit
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Flourescent and phosphorescent CALCITE with NATROLITE
Robertson Pit
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Pristine NATROLITE cluster
Robertson Pit
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White ANALCIME on basalt matrix
Robertson Pit
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Gemmy ANALCIME on basalt matrix
Robertson Pit
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ANALCIME crystals on basalt matrix
Robertson Pit
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CHABAZITE
Rock Candy Mountain Road Cut
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LÉVYNE
Rock Candy Mountain Road Cut
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Aesthetic white sprays of MORDENITE
Rock Creek
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Dogtooth CALCITE on red HEULANDITE
Rock Creek
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Aesthetic white sprays of MORDENITE on red HEULANDITE
Rock Creek
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Honey-colored PAULINGITE-K with radial hemisphers of colorless PHILLIPSITE-K and ERIONITE-K needles
Rock Island Dam
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CINNABAR
Royal Reward Mine
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Lustrous, translucent REALGAR
Royal Reward Mine
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REALGAR crystals, etched out of calcite
larges crystal is 2.5 mm
Royal Reward Mine
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REALGAR cluster
Royal Reward Mine
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Gemmy REALGAR etched from calcite on QUARTZ
Royal Reward Mine
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Gemmy acicular REALGAR etched from calcite on brecciated rock matrix
Royal Reward Mine
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Pink HEULANDITE on white MORDENITE
Skookumchuck Dam
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Pink HEULANDITE on MORDENITE
Skookumchuck Dam
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Pink HEULANDITE
Skookumchuck Dam
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Lustrous white STILBITE "bow tie" on micro pink HEULANDITE with basalt matrix
Skookumchuck Dam
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"Rice" QUARTZ
South Fork Toutle River
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STILBITE
South Fork Toutle River
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BARITE with QUARTZ and PYRITE
Spruce Ridge
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PYRITE and QUARTZ
Spruce Ridge
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CHALCOPYRITE epitactic on PYRITE
Spruce Ridge
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PYRITE
Spruce Ridge
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QUARTZ with ANKERITE
Spruce Ridge
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BARITE perched on QUARTZ "flower"
Spruce Ridge
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QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter on QUARTZ
Spruce Ridge
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QUARTZ cluster with QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepters
Spruce Ridge
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Rehealed and sceptered QUARTZ splay
Spruce Ridge
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ANKERITE "rose" perched on QUARTZ
Spruce Ridge
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Light amethystine QUARTZ scepter cluster
Spruce Ridge
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Stacked ANKERITE crystals on QUARTZ
Spruce Ridge
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SPHALERITE crystal on ANKERITE
Spruce Ridge
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Octahedral PYRITE
Spruce Ridge
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CALCITE and QUARTZ
Spruce Ridge
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QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter cluster
Spruce Ridge
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Stacked BARITE with QUARTZ
Spruce Ridge
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"Dumbbell" sceptered QUARTZ cluster
Spruce Ridge
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BORNITE with CHALCOPYRITE
Sunset Mine
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MALACHITE with BORNITE
Sunset Mine
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BORNITE (cut and polished)
Sunset Mine
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Crystalline GOLD wire
Swauk Creek Mine
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Crystalline wire GOLD
Swauk Creek Mine
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Complex crystalline wire GOLD
Swauk Creek Mine
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Crystalline wire GOLD (multiple wires)
Swauk Creek Mine
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AUTUNITE and META-AUTUNITE cluster
Triple H&J Mine
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ZOISITE (Var: THULITE )
Tunk Creek
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Pink ZOISITE (Var: THULITE ) with yellow-orange UNIDENTIFIED
Tunk Creek
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Lilac-colored CLINOCHLORE (Var: Chomian Chlinochlore) with UVAROVITE and CHROMITE
Twin Sisters Mountian
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Green CHROMIO-PARGASITE megacrysts in dunite
Twin Sisters Mountian
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Black, banded cumulate CHROMITE crystals in dunite
Twin Sisters Mountian
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Vibrant lilac-colored CLINOCHLORE (Var: Chomian Chlinochlore) with UVAROVITE and CHROMITE
Twin Sisters Mountian
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Lilac-colored CLINOCHLORE (Var: Chomian Chlinochlore)
Twin Sisters Mountian
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Radial white SCOLECITE on basalt matrix
Venersborg
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HEDENBERGITE cluster
Vesper Peak Skarn
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CLINOZOISITE
Vesper Peak Skarn
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Gemmy GROSSULAR garnet
Vesper Peak Skarn
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PREHNITE
Vesper Peak Skarn
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AXINITE with GROSSULAR garnet
Vesper Peak Skarn
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Greenish-brown GROSSULAR garnet crystals partially coating QUARTZ
Vesper Peak Skarn
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Blocky PREHNITE crystals on black HEDENBERGITE
Vesper Peak Skarn
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Gemmy GROSSULAR garnet cluster
Vesper Peak Skarn
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Small QUARTZ cluster with small Japan-Law twin and associated GROSSULAR garnet
Vesper Peak Skarn
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CLINOZOISITE with HEDENBERGITE and GROSSULAR garnet
Vesper Peak Skarn
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QUARTZ epimorph after CALCITE (view from front, side and bottom)
Vesper Peak Skarn
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Gemmy TITANITE
Vesper Peak Skarn
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Gemmy pink AXINITE on QUARTZ
Vesper Peak Skarn
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QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst), CALCITE rose
Walker Valley
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Rods of SIDERITE intergrown within a basalt amygdule.
Walker Valley
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ACTINOLITE in TALC matrix
Wenatchee Ridge
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ACTINOLITE and TALC
Wenatchee Ridge
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Massive cleaved CALCITE with zoning
Wenatchee Ridge
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CHRYSOTILE
Wenatchee Ridge
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FUCHSITE on quartz-rich matrix
Wenatchee Ridge
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PYRITE cubes in matrix
Wenatchee Ridge
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Gemmy ACTINOLITE and TALC
Wenatchee Ridge
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Dark green ACTINOLITE and silvery TALC
Wenatchee Ridge
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Columnar ACTINOLITE in white TALC with rhythmic stripes, likely from TALC
Wenatchee Ridge
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Vibrant green ACTINOLITE in silvery TALC matrix
Wenatchee Ridge
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Dark green ACTINOLITE and silvery TALC
Wenatchee Ridge
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