AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Quartz with Pyrite and Goethite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 79720 |
Mineral: | Quartz with Pyrite and Goethite |
Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
Description: | Sparkling cluster of lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 9 mm with lustrous cubic and bar-shaped yellow-metallic pyrite microcrystals, plus black spherical and needle-like goethite microcrystals, on the quartz surfaces and included inside. Collected in 1990s by Prof. Martin Becker, author of Recent Mineral Finds at the Millington Quarry in Rocks and Minerals v.73 #5 |
Overall Size: | 7.5x5x4 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 9 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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