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Stilbite with Calcite on Quartz (2013 find)
- Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey
- Small Cabinet, 6.2 x 4.2 x 2.2 cm
- Start Time: 05/08/2014 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/15/2014 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
The famous Prospect Park Quarry is one of the most impressive (and under appreciated) Zeolite localities in the world. This quarry has produced some amazing specimens in the last 100 years. This specimen features a lone 1.3 cm "sheaf"-shaped group of golden, translucent Stilbite with sharp, lustrous, gemmy, golden rhombs of Calcite measuring up to 6 mmon Quartz on matrix. Sadly, this great New Jersey locality is being filled in for a housing development (like so many of the great Trap Rock localities in this area), and pieces like this one will be never be collected again. This piece was collected in 2013.