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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: 
7 × 6 × 5.5 cm
Description

Beautiful old datolite specimen - with pale green to colorless glassy mostly transparent crystals of datolite on matrix.

With minor green prehnite.

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