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Stilbite, Prehnite, Calcite, Quartz from Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey

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DESCRIPTION:	No. 76860
Mineral:	Stilbite, Prehnite, Calcite, Quartz
Locality:	Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey
Description:	Elongated cavity in green basalt lined with lustrous transparent pale-brown bladed stilbite crystals to 5 mm with lustrous transparent colorless pseudo-cubic calcite crystals to 5 mm and pale green prehnite spheres to 3 mm on quartz crystals to 2 mm. Collected October 1994. The calcite fluoresces under LW and SW ultraviolet illumination.
Overall Size:	16x9x7 cm
Crystals:	1-5 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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