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Calcite on Quartz with Goethite and Pyrite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

 
Calcite on Quartz with Goethite and Pyrite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Goethite and Pyrite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Goethite and Pyrite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

DESCRIPTION:No. 54111
Mineral:Calcite on Quartz with Goethite and Pyrite
Locality:Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey
Description:Large transparent scalenohedral colorless calcite crystal 30 mm long in a cavity lined with lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 3 mm with scattered black goethite and yellow-metallic microcrystals on surfaces and included in the calcite. Collected in March 2000
Overall Size:8.5x7x6 cm
Crystals:micro to 30 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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