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Chabazite and Thomsonite over Calcite from Craigs Quarry, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

 
Chabazite and Thomsonite over Calcite from Craigs Quarry, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Chabazite and Thomsonite over Calcite from Craigs Quarry, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

DESCRIPTION:No. 59321
Mineral:Chabazite and Thomsonite over Calcite
Locality:Craigs Quarry, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Description:Lustrous transparent colorless interpenetrant-twinned rhombohedral chabazite crystals to 6 mm with small colorless thomsonite microcrystals over transparent brown elongated scalenohedral calcite crystals to 1.5 mm (visible on the edges). Collected in 2002
Overall Size:4.5x3x1.5 cm
Crystals:micro to 6 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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