AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Pyrite with Calcite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 78389 |
Mineral: | Pyrite with Calcite |
Locality: | Millington Quarry, State Pit, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
Description: | Large (for the locality) cubic yellow-metallic pyrite crystals to 5 mm with translucent pale-yellow pseudo-cubic calcite crystals to 4 mm on a fragment of brown matrix. Pyrite crystals, an iron-sulfide mineral, were uncommon at Millington. Collected 2 October 1994. |
Overall Size: | 18x17x10 mm |
Crystals: | micro to 5 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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