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Calcite on Quartz with Goethite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

 
Calcite on Quartz with Goethite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Goethite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Goethite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

Calcite on Quartz with Goethite from Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey

DESCRIPTION:No. 64788
Mineral:Calcite on Quartz with Goethite
Locality:Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey
Description:Large plate covered on the front faces with transparent-to-translucent colorless rhombohedral calcite crystals to 8 mm on lustrous translucent gray quartz crystals to 2 mm with platy brown goethite crystals in spherical aggregates to 0.4 mm. Ex. St. Lawrence University Collection; ex. Howard E. Moore (1926-2011)
Overall Size:14x7.5x3 cm
Crystals:micro to 8 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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