Stilbite with Heulandite and Prehnite

Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey
Small Cabinet, 7.8 x 5.3 x 2.6 cm
Start Time: 02/19/2015 6:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/26/2015 6:45:00 pm (CST)
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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 beautiful lustrous, tan colored bladed groups and "sheaves" of Stilbite measuring up to 1.8 cm with lustrous "pearly" white Heulandite plus a couple isolated, green Prehnite spheres on Quartz crystals 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. A nice display specimen of this cool association.

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