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Calcite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

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DESCRIPTION:	No. 82520
Mineral:	Calcite
Locality:	Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
Description:	Lustrous transparent yellow-gray calcite crystal with remnants of greenish basalt on the bottom where it was attached. The calcite crystal is rectangular pseudo-cubic form with stepped crystallization patterns on the surfaces. The calcite fluoresces under SW-LW UV illumination. Ex. Miller collection T3748; ex. Betts #77508; collected ca. 1996
Overall Size:	27x18x17 mm
Crystals:	18 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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