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Gila County

Name: Gila County
Address: US

33.7911°N -110.8364°W · Q58686

One English word in this atlas traces back to Gila County. It sits in United States.

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gilalitenoun · 1980

Well attested

Green needles of it grow inside quartz crystals and are sold as medusa quartz.

Gilalite was described in 1980 from the Christmas copper mine in Gila County, Arizona, and named for the county rather than the mine. Type material went to the Natural History Museum in London. Included fibers of gilalite in Brazilian quartz are cut as gems under the trade name medusa or paraiba quartz.

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