Mike Dennis' Photo Gallery
Y68-4ACQuartz SiO2
Norwood Quartz Quarry, Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina, USADimensions: 0.18 mm x 10 mm x 1 mm
Thin clear tabular crystal of quartz.18x10x1 mm.
DTT-CH5Quartz SiO2
Norwood Quartz Quarry, Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina, USADimensions: 0.8 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm
Clear Quartz crystal,8x4x4 cm.Second picture taken from the other direction.
W91-A9JQuartz (Var: Milky Quartz) SiO2
Norwood Quartz Quarry, Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina, USAOne of the many milky Quartz boulders at this site.Reports of clear to milky crystals over 35 cm. long have been collected from this site.I was not that fortunate to find one.
5WY-N0WPyrite FeS2 , Quartz (Var: Milky Quartz) SiO2
Norwood Quartz Quarry, Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina, USADimensions: 4 mm x 4 mm x 2 mm
Small Pyrite crystal in milky Quartz.Pyrite is 4x4x2 mm.
Quartz vein
Norwood Quartz Quarry, Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina, USAA old location,revisted.A large quartz outcrop visted by our group for the first time.We found some nice crystals and one person found a small Pyrite crystal.
PVU-PN6Spessartine Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3 , Columbite-(Fe) Fe2+Nb2O6 , Albite (Var: Cleavelandite) Na(AlSi3O8) , Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) SiO2
Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia County, Virginia, USADimensions: 0.6 cm x 4 cm x 3 cm
Wine colored Spessartine garnets mixed with metallic Columbite-(Fe) crystals in Cleavelandite matrix.6x4x3 cm.
V1N-A7PQuartz SiO2 , Dolomite CaMg(CO3)2 , Calcite CaCO3
Triangle Quarry, Cary, Wake County, North Carolina, USADimensions: 0.5 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm
Quartz crystal with small rhombic Dolomite crystals in second picture.5x2x2 cm.
6XE-4D3Pyrophyllite Al2Si4O10(OH)2
Piedmont Minerals Company Mine, Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, USADimensions: 0.1 cm x 7 cm x 4 cm
Creamy radiating crystals of Pyrophyllite.10x7x4 cm.
GKC-G2VPyrophyllite Al2Si4O10(OH)2
Bowlings Mountain Mine, Bowlings Mountain, Granville County, North Carolina, USADimensions: 0.7 cm x 6 cm x 3 cm
Radiating sprays of bronze Pyrophyllite.7x6x3 cm.
4HP-613Beryl Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Hoppus Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USADimensions: 0.4 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm
Golden beryl from the Hoppus Mine, nice smooth face on the front. 4x2x2 cm.