Anhydrite (good blue color)

Item Description

The Braen's Quarry in New Jersey has been seldom collected quarry for a while, but has been a source of excellent Zeolite specimens and associated species in small quantities. This piece features no Zeolites, but is a lovely, translucent, blue to white color group of Anhydrite on minor matrix. The piece is not damage free, but it is good quality, and one hardly sees any crystallized Anhydrite from the New Jersey trap rocks, as most of it was either dissolved away or turned into "casts" or perimorphs after other minerals. Certainly different that most Anhydrites I've seen from other parts of the world, and would make a nice addition to a reference collection of New Jersey minerals.