AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Calcite with Goethite inclusions |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 77820 |
Mineral: | Calcite with Goethite inclusions |
Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
Description: | Round cluster completely covered on the top with transparent-to-translucent pale-yellow calcite crystals with microscopic brown-black goethite inclusions. The calcite crystals are second-order scalenohedral form resulting in slender, tapering crystals. Collected ca. 1995. |
Overall Size: | 9x7x3 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 10 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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