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Datolite

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Description
Locality: 
Prospect Park Quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5.6 × 2.5 cm
Description

Beautiful old datolite specimen - the top covered by pale green to colorless glassy mostly transparent crystals of datolite to 1.3 cm in size.

Ex Armin Wendland collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Datolite

Formula: 
Ca(HBSiO5)
Strunz: 
9.AJ.20
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Nødebro Mine (Nøddebro), Arendal Iron Mines, Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway