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Calcite on Quartz with Hematite and Laumontite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

 
Calcite on Quartz with Hematite and Laumontite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Hematite and Laumontite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Hematite and Laumontite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Hematite and Laumontite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Hematite and Laumontite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

DESCRIPTION:No. 64731
Mineral:Calcite on Quartz with Hematite and Laumontite
Locality:Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey
Description:Lustrous transparent orange-brown rhombohedral calcite crystals to 7 mm on lustrous quartz microcrystals over pseudomorphs after anhydrite with scattered white laumontite crystals to 3 mm and black-metallic hematite crystals to 0.3 mm, Ex. St. Lawrence University Collection; ex. Howard E. Moore (1926-2011); collected the summer of 1946
Overall Size:6.5x5x2 cm
Crystals:0.1-7.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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