• Specimen Number

  49

• Description

Blocky fragment of milky quartz, highly fractured with oxide stain in splaying fractures. Vugs and and apparent mineralization suggests the possibility of an ore-bearing hydrothermal vein. No suggestion of bedding, lamination, or intergrowths.

• Classification

  Hydrothermal. Vein. Quartz.

• Location & Occurrence

  Unknown.

• Geologic Age

  Unknown.

• Geoheritage

  Alaska was admitted as the 49th state after the pavilion was built.  This specimen possibly links to the ore-bearing mining districts in southern Alaska. This is one of several vein quartz specimens in the collection, weakly suggesting it was collected by the original collector.

• Links

  State Geological Map from USGS.  Alaska Geological Survey.

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