Deerite
at-auction$ 20
- Locality
- Laytonville Quarry, Mendocino Co., California, USA
- Minerals
- Deerite
- Dimensions
- 3 x 2 x 1 cm
- Size class
- Thumbnail
- SID
- D709
Black acicular crystals of the rare mineral Deerite. Named after Professor William Alexander Deer, a mineralogist-petrologist with Cambridge University, England. Prof. Deer was one of the authors of the Rock-Forming Minerals book series (Deer, Howie and Zussman).