AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Datolite with Pyrite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 46399 |
Mineral: | Datolite with Pyrite |
Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
Description: | Small cavity lined with lustrous translucent pale-green datolite crystals to 8 mm with yellow-metallic cubo-octahedral pyrite crystals to 1 mm scattered throughout. Pyrite, a sulfide mineral, is uncommon in the zeolite cavities of New Jersey. |
Overall Size: | 4.5x4x2.5 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 8 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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