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Critical mineral veins

Detailed Description

A fluorite-lepidolite-wolframite vein intersected in drill core from the Lost River Sn-W mine, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Lepidolite is a lithium-bearing mica, and wolframite an ore of tungsten. 

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.

Photo by George Case, U.S. Geological Survey