Hearst Mine, Winchester Mining District, Winchester Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Slightly smoky, transparent, oddly shaped quartz crystal surrounded by calcite. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless sceptre quartz crystal with center crystal the sceptre and two outer crystals with double terminations. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Yellow, earthy limonite with dark brown hematite on quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
White kaolinite with dark brown hematite on quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Orange colored cleavages of a feldspar group mineral with minor quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Brown pseudomorphs of hematite after pyrite with a bright red streak, in quartz matrix. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Mostly colorless with a bit of hematite staining, sceptre quartz crystal. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Light gray, transparent smoky quartz crystal Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Quartz crystals with reverse sceptres with minor hematite staining. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Calcite crystals, mostly coated by iron oxides, on quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Nearly colorless calcite crystal with a bit of internal iron oxide color from the matrix below it. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Black manganese oxides with quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Glass clear sceptre quartz crystal with calcite coating nearby quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Hematite dendrites, with a red streak, on quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Black hematite pseudomorphs after pyrite, with a red streak, on quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Glass clear quartz crystals with minor brown hematite. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Slightly smoky, transparent, oddly shaped quartz crystal surrounded by calcite, photo with a different angle of the crystal. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Calcite vein right at the entrance to the Hearst mine, my shadow for scale. Rolf Luetcke photo taken 11-13-2012.
Hearst Mine entrance. Rolf Luetcke photo taken 11-13-2012.
Clive Bailey at the entrance to the Hearst mine. Rolf Luetcke photo taken 11-13-2012.
Clive Bailey standing by an old mine building below the Hearst Mine. Hearst mine can be seen to the left and above Clives head. Dirt road goes to main shaft at the top of the dirt roads. Rolf Luetcke photo taken 11-13-2012.