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CHRYSOBERYL Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH 7 cm specimen with lime-green chrysoberyl crystal sections and powder-blue beryl. CHRYSOBERYL Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH Closer view of chrysoberyl crystal sections and powder-blue beryl.	Species: CHRYSOBERYL Locality: Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen with lime-green chrysoberyl crystal sections and powder-blue beryl. Field Collected: Don Swenson Catalog No.: TBC Notes:
CHRYSOBERYL Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH 1.7 mm chrysoberyl trilling	Species: CHRYSOBERYL Locality: Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH Specimen Size: 1.7 mm chrysoberyl trilling. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (1982) Catalog No.: u164 Notes: The lower (horizontal) leg of the trilling is partially obscured in matrix.
GOETHITE Long Mtn., Odel, NH 5 cm specimen.	Species: GOETHITE Locality: Long Mtn., Odel, NH Specimen Size: 5 cm specimen. Field Collected: ex Don Swenson, (collection date noted as Aug. 1992) Catalog No.: TBC Notes: Interesting specimen from an undocumented locality, although Long Mtn. is noted under Stark, NH by Phillip Morrill for amethyst.
GRAPHITE Dunbar Lead Mine, Bristol, NH 1 mm graphite crystal in quartz	Species: GRAPHITE Locality: Dunbar Lead Mine, Bristol, NH Specimen Size: 1 mm graphite crystal in quartz Field Collected: Bob Wilken (2011) Catalog No.: Notes:
PYRRHOTITE Former McDonalds site, Rt. 101A, Exit 7W Everett Turnpike, Nashua, NH 1.2 mm pyrrhotite crystal group. PYRRHOTITE Former McDonalds site, Rt. 101A, Exit 7W Everett Turnpike, Nashua, NH 1.2 mm pyrrhotite crystal group, alternate lighting	Species: PYRRHOTITE Locality: Former McDonalds site, Rt. 101A, Exit 7W Everett Turnpike, Nashua, NH Specimen Size: 1.2 mm pyrrhotite crystal group Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (June, 2012) Catalog No.: u1273 Notes: In thin calcite vein, disolved with away vineger. Second view with alternate light orientation. Similar thin, tabular, pyrrhotite crystals were found by Scott Whittemore at nearby Mine Falls Park, Nashua, in the early 1990's.
PYRRHOTITE Former McDonalds site, Rt. 101A, Exit 7W Everett Turnpike, Nashua, NH 0.8 mm pyrrhotite crystal.	Species: PYRRHOTITE Locality: Former McDonalds site, Rt. 101A, Exit 7W Everett Turnpike, Nashua, NH Specimen Size: 0.8 mm pyrrhotite crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (June, 2012) Catalog No.: u1273 Notes: Found in thin calcite vein.
PYRRHOTITE Former McDonalds site, Rt. 101A, Exit 7W Everett Turnpike, Nashua, NH 0.7 mm pyrrhotite crystal.	Species: PYRRHOTITE Locality: Former McDonalds site, Rt. 101A, Exit 7W Everett Turnpike, Nashua, NH Specimen Size: 0.7 mm pyrrhotite crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (June, 2012) Catalog No.: u1273 Notes: Found in thin calcite vein. There appears to be an undisolved substrate of calcite behind this thin crystal of pyrrhotite. Part of a clear adularia crystal is in the upper right of the photo.
PYROMORPHITE Mineral Hill, Wakefield, NH 7 mm field of view. Lustrous cream-colored secondary pyromorphite overgrowth on gray prismatic first generation pyromorphite.	Species: PYROMORPHITE Locality: Mineral Hill, Wakefield, NH Specimen Size: 7 mm field of view. Lustrous cream-colored secondary pyromorphite overgrowth on gray prismatic first generation pyromorphite. Field Collected: Gene Bearss Catalog No.: Notes: A Gene Bearss collection specimen
FALSTERITE Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH 1 mm cavity filled with acicular falsterite	Species: FALSTERITE Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH Specimen Size: 1 mm cavity filled with acicular falsterite. Field Collected: Bob Whitmore, (2003) A gift from Bob. Catalog No.: u1274 Notes:
GRAFTONITE DeMott Mine, Grafton, NH 4 cm specimen	Species: GRAFTONITE Locality: DeMott Mine, Grafton, NH Specimen Size: 4 cm specimen Field Collected: Dana Jewell Catalog No.: Notes: A good voucher specimen from this little collected locality. The laminar structure typical of graftonite is evident.