AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Apophyllite with Calcite on Datolite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 73320 |
Mineral: | Apophyllite with Calcite on Datolite |
Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
Description: | Large sparkling cluster of lustrous transparent colorless apophyllite crystals to 3 mm on translucent pale-green datolite with lustrous rhombic-to-pseudocubic transparent colorless calcite crystals to 12 mm. Note the thin molds of platy calcite crystals. From my personal collection #451; collected in June 1994. The calcite crystals fluoresce white under LW and SW ultraviolet illumination |
Overall Size: | 11x10x7 cm |
Crystals: | 1-12 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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