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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 52132 |
| Mineral: | Quartz with Pyrite |
| Locality: | Gorge Road condominium excavation, Edgewater, Palisades Sill, Bergen County, New Jersey |
| Description: | The largest specimen collected from a quartz-pyrite formation in a fracture joint in the Palisades Sill diabase. The surfaces are composed of translucent milky quartz crystals to 5 mm with cavities where the pyrite decomposed to limonite. From my personal collection; collected ca. 1999 |
| Overall Size: | 22x13x3.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-5 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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