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Quartz and Calcite from Under the Henry Hudson Bridge, Inwood Hill, New York City, Manhattan Island, New York County, New York

 
Quartz and Calcite from Under the Henry Hudson Bridge, Inwood Hill, New York City, Manhattan Island, New York County, New York

Quartz and Calcite from Under the Henry Hudson Bridge, Inwood Hill, New York City, Manhattan Island, New York County, New York

DESCRIPTION:No. 63283
Mineral:Quartz and Calcite
Locality:Under the Henry Hudson Bridge, Inwood Hill, New York City, Manhattan Island, New York County, New York
Description:Small cavity in fine-grained gray matrix lined with lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 6 mm and rhombohedral colorless calcite crystals to 3 mm. For more information on this find see: Manhattan Mineral Collecting in Mineral News v.14#1. Collected ca. 1997
Overall Size:5x4x3 cm
Crystals:1-6 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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