| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Calcite and Prehnite with minor Pectolite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 79844 |
| Mineral: | Calcite and Prehnite with minor Pectolite |
| Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
| Description: | Large lustrous transparent colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals to 42 mm with translucent green prehnite spherical aggregates to 7 mm diameter embedded in the surfaces, plus a small group of fibrous white pectolite crystals to 2 mm. Collected in 1990s by Prof. Martin Becker, author of Recent Mineral Finds at the Millington Quarry in Rocks and Minerals v.73 #5 |
| Overall Size: | 4x3.5x1.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-42 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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