AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Gmelinite and Calcite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 76213 |
Mineral: | Gmelinite and Calcite |
Locality: | Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey |
Description: | Complexly etched lustrous translucent orange-brown gmelinite crystals with lustrous transparent colorless calcite crystals to 3 mm on greenish basalt. The gmelinite crystals have parallel faces that reflect illumination simultaneously. Ex. Franklin Mineral Museum (N.J.); ex. Joe Orosc; collected ca. 1980 |
Overall Size: | 4x2.5x1 cm |
Crystals: | 1-4 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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