Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
90.23.002
Accession#:
90.23
Credit Line:
Donated by Echo Bay Mines.
Object Name:
Sample, Mineral
Title:
Mineral Sample Rock
Description:
White quartz and gray carbonate host coarse—grained metallic gray acanthite, iridescent blue—green bornite, and brassy yellow pyrite.
Notes:
From Greens Creek Mine. Called "white ore" or low sulfide ore.
— Need to get a rock hound to identify whether it came from Greens Creek or Kensington
Removed from exhibit in the permanent mining exhibit, Murray Gallery Feb, 2008.
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Mineral
Mining
Hardrock
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