| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Massachusetts > Babingtonite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 80697 |
| Mineral: | Babingtonite |
| Locality: | Aggregate Industries Quarry, Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts |
| Description: | Rectangular plate of lustrous greenish-black babingtonite crystals, the State Mineral of Massachusetts, with remnants of colorless calcite that encompassed the babingtonite and was dissolved to expose the crystals. Ex. Miller #M3899; ex. E. Greene #SIL-188; collected by Dick Stenberg in the 1960s |
| Overall Size: | 5.5x3.5x2 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-3.5 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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