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Datolite, Quartz, Calcite, and Pyrite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

DESCRIPTION:	No. 81662
Mineral:	Datolite, Quartz, Calcite, and Pyrite
Locality:	Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
Description:	Lustrous transparent pale-green datolite crystals to 4 mm over an earlier generation of smoky quartz crystals to 5 mm on gray basalt. Colorless rhombic calcite crystals to 2.5 mm and pyrite microcrystals are scattered over the datolite throughout. From my personal collection; collected in 2000. This quarry is now closed forever and reclaimed
Overall Size:	8x7.5x5 cm
Crystals:	micro to 4 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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