AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Calcite with inclusions of Pyrite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 78617 |
Mineral: | Calcite with inclusions of Pyrite |
Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
Description: | Lustrous transparent colorless calcite crystals to 2 mm on face of gray basalt. The calcite crystals have scattered microscopic yellow-metallic pyrite crystals on the surfaces and unusual gray inclusions of an unidentified mineral (never seen before). Collected on 15 September 1996. |
Overall Size: | 5.5x5x2.5 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 2 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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