Fig. 8. Graphite from Lime Crest quarry, Sparta, New Jersey

Unusual Graphite Crystals
from Lime Crest quarry, Sparta, New Jersey


Fig. 8.

SEM photo of graphite crystals (to approximately 0.2 mm)
showing a secondary overgrowth of graphite crystals as minute plates.
Associated are a spray of arsenopyrite crystals at the lower right and
a plate of pyrrhotite at the lower left.
SEM photo by Ruth I. Kramer. John A. Jaszczak specimen #1556.



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