AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Datolite with minor Pyrite and Goethite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 75609 |
Mineral: | Datolite with minor Pyrite and Goethite |
Locality: | Braen's Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey |
Description: | Unusually large plate of lustrous transparent mint-green datolite crystals to 11 mm with scattered yellow-metallic pyrite microcrystals and spherical goethite groups. Select faces of the datolite crystals are opaque white, all other faces are lustrous. From my personal collection; collected in 2002 by K. Hennig |
Overall Size: | 16x8x5 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 11 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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