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Calcite with phantom-growth zoning from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

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DESCRIPTION:	No. 78394
Mineral:	Calcite with phantom-growth zoning
Locality:	Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
Description:	Lustrous transparent colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals to 12 mm with phantom-growth zoning where early calcite crystals were overgrown with brown microcrystals of an unidentified miner that were then overgrown with late-growth calcite. The calcite fluoresces orange under UV illumination. Collected 17 September 1995.
Overall Size:	30x28x24 mm
Crystals:	micro to 12 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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