Pectolite
Castle Danger, the Rock Yard, Minnesota, USA
About 5 X 9 X 9 cm
Radiating clusters of Pectolite crystals and another mineral, possibly xonotlite, in a dark green mix of augite and plagioclase altered to prehnite. About 5 X 9 X 9 cm, the specimen is an amygdule containing the pectolite, surrounded by prehnite. This was described in a 1924 article by G. M. Schwartz of the U of MN in the American Mineralogist, pp. 83 - 88. (Author: John Nash)
Dimensions: | 750 x 498 |
File size: | 33.96 kbytes |
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