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Pectolite with Calcite and Prehnite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

 
Pectolite with Calcite and Prehnite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

Pectolite with Calcite and Prehnite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

Pectolite with Calcite and Prehnite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

Pectolite with Calcite and Prehnite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

Photo below under longwave ultraviolet illumination:
Pectolite with Calcite and Prehnite from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

DESCRIPTION:No. 90042
Mineral:Pectolite with Calcite and Prehnite
Locality:Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
Description:Cavity lined with fibrous pink-white pectolite crystals to 9 mm, including a cylindrical formation where the pectolite formed of blades of calcite(?), with a 20 mm translucent colorless rhombic calcite crystal and hemispheres of green prehnite to 6 mm. Personally collected in 1995. This quarry is now closed forever and reclaimed
Overall Size:12x8x6 cm
Crystals:2-15 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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