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"Chimney Rock (quarry in back) (1964)
Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA
I lived in south Bound Brook for a couple of years. (Author: John Medici)
"Chimney Rock (quarry in back
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"Christmas tree ore" (rarified zinc ore)
Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, USA
18 cm wide
Two types of this ore adjacent to one another - collected by Dick Hauck et al., 2012. (SW UV) (Author: John Medici)
"Christmas tree ore" (ra
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"Mt. Fuji" pocket (2005)
Graves Mt., Lincoln Co., Georgia
35 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
"Mt. Fuji" pocket (2005)
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"turgite" (goethite/hematite)
Graves Mt., GA
around 6 cm across (Author: John Medici)
"turgite" (goethite/hema
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Apophyllite and Pectolite
Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA
2 cm long
added note on Snake Hill - galena and magnetite are uncommon in the rest of NJ trap rocks. Snake Hill has also produced some interesting micros. (Author: John Medici)
Apophyllite and Pectolite
Snake (L
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Apophyllite, Natrolite and Galena
Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA
Apophyllite on natrolite & galena (Author: John Medici)
Apophyllite, Natrolite and Galena
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Barite
Mex-Tex mine, Bingham, NM (Author: John Medici)
Barite
Mex-Tex mine, Bingham, NM
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Barite (a floater)
Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, NM (Author: John Medici)
Barite (a floater)
Mex-Tex Mine, B
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Beryl cat’s eye
Albany, Maine, USA
6 cm (Author: John Medici)
Beryl cat’s eye
Albany, Main
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Beryl tapered common
Albany, Maine, USA
4 cm (Author: John Medici)
Beryl tapered common
Albany, Maine
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Betafite
Silver Crater Mine near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada (Author: John Medici)
Betafite
Silver Crater Mine near B
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Brett M. and Jay M. at Silver Crater (Author: John Medici)
Brett M. and Jay M. at Silver Crat
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Brett Medici w. fluorite in celestite sand
Lime City, Ohio, USA
Fluorite cubes to 5 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Brett Medici w. fluorite in celest
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Calcite
La Farge quarry, Medford, Maryland, USA
7 cm (Author: John Medici)
Calcite
La Farge quarry, Medford,
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Calcite
Snake Hill (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA
Calcite (hematite-coated). Longest crystal 1.5 cm
Snake hill was an isolated igneous hill in the meadowlands of northeastern NJ. It was completely leveled by quarrying, but in the process many interesting minerals were found. It is not far from an old clay pit in Moonachie where I have taken my family to collect clay concretions. (Author: John Medici)
Calcite
Snake Hill (Laurel Hill),
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Calcite (twin?) (assocd. with barite)
Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, NM (Author: John Medici)
Calcite (twin?) (assocd. with bari
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Calcite cleavage
La Farge quarry, Medford, Maryland, USA
7 cm (Author: John Medici)
Calcite cleavage
La Farge quarry,
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Chalcedony
Dugway, Juab County, Utah, USA
Chalcedony geode (UV SW). 29 cm long dimension
sorry for photo through showcase window! (Author: John Medici)
Chalcedony
Dugway, Juab County, Ut
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Chalcopyrite and Bornite
Chimney Rock quarry, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA
8X6.5 cm
chalcopyrite altering to bornite (Author: John Medici)
Chalcopyrite and Bornite
Chimney R
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Copper
Chimney Rock quarry, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA
8.5X6.8 cm
The Chimney Rock quarry was on the site of an old copper mine. A copper chunk around 90 lbs. jammed the crusher during the quarrying operation. I believe it is still in the Rutgers collection. During my collecting there, I found mainly calcites, analcimes, traces of copper minerals and a prehnite or two. (Author: John Medici)
Copper
Chimney Rock quarry, Bound
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Dugway, Utah, USA (Author: John Medici)
Dugway, Utah, USA
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Fluorite
Clay Center, Ohio, USA
1cm ring (small crystal is 3.5cm on edge)
1950’s (and 2006-the small one) (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite
Clay Center, Ohio, USA
1c
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Fluorite
National Lime & Stone Co. Quarry, Lima, Ohio, USA
3.5 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite
National Lime & Stone
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Fluorite & calcite - acrylic painting by Susan Robinson
Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
fluorite cube 3 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite & calcite - acrylic p
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fluorite & smoky quartz
Sierra Blanca (Author: John Medici)
fluorite & smoky quartz
Sierra
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Fluorite & sphalerite
Bluffton Stone Co. quarry, Bluffton, Ohio, USA
5 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite & sphalerite
Bluffton
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Fluorite (opaque, brown underneath) for Jordi
Genoa, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (opaque, brown underneath
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Fluorite (sphalerite inclusions)
Bluffton Stone Co. quarry, Bluffton, Ohio, USA
fluorite 1 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (sphalerite inclusions)
B
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Fluorite (tetrahex/cube exaggerated I think)
Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
1.3 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (tetrahex/cube exaggerate
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Fluorite (tricolor)
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
1 cm (larger crystal) (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (tricolor)
Auglaize quarr
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Fluorite - cast & anhydrite
Lime City, Ohio, USA
cast 1.2 cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite - cast & anhydrite
Li
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Fluorite - purple over iridescent
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
10 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite - purple over iridescent
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Fluorite - rare iridescent colors
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite - rare iridescent colors
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Fluorite cast @ anhydrite (orig. calcite-filled)
Bluffton, Ohio, USA
2.5 cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite cast @ anhydrite (orig. c
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Fluorite needle (bifurcated) SEM by George.Robinson
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
around 6 mm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite needle (bifurcated) SEM b
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Fluorite needles (on head of pin)
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
7 mm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite needles (on head of pin)
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Fluorite phantom (cube/tetrahex)
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
1.0X0.8cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite phantom (cube/tetrahex)
A
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Fluorite phantoms
Pugh quarry, Custar, Ohio, USA
cubes around 7 mm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite phantoms
Pugh quarry, Cus
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Fluorite sheaves and cubes
Delphos, Ohio, USA
4 cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite sheaves and cubes
Delphos
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Franklin club field trip around 1967
Noble pit - Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, NJ
My hammer was stolen on this trip, but I still found a floater jeffersonite and a decent franklinite crystal. Many of my early pictures have not been converted to digital form. I’m working on that. (This picture appeared on the cover of the Franklin "Picking Table" a few years back) (Author: John Medici)
Franklin club field trip around 19
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Gmelinite, Analcime, Apophyllite on Datolite
Francisco Bros. quarry, Great Notch, New Jersey, USA
5.2 cm high
(cast after anhydrite). This was on the (underexposed) cover of the Rocks & Minerals issue on NJ traprock minerals (1984). (Author: John Medici)
Gmelinite, Analcime, Apophyllite o
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Grossular (var. Hessonite) on Diopside
Asbestos Mine, Eden Mills, Vermont, USA
1.3 cm across
Jeff Scovil photo (Author: John Medici)
Grossular (var. Hessonite) on Diop
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Grossular on Diopside
Belvedere Mt., Eden Mills, Vermont, USA
7X8 cm. (Author: John Medici)
Grossular on Diopside
Belvedere Mt
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Hematite & bixbyite @ garnet
Thomas range mountains, Utah, USA
2.5 cm high (Author: John Medici)
Hematite & bixbyite @ garnet
T
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hematite ("turgite"-coated) (2004)
Graves Mt., GA
stalactite length to 5 cm (Author: John Medici)
hematite ("turgite"-coat
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hematite @ pyrite
Graves Mt., GA
modified cube 1.5 cm (Author: John Medici)
hematite @ pyrite
Graves Mt., GA
m
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Hematite @ pyrite ( kyanite inside)
Graves Mt., GA
(1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
Hematite @ pyrite ( kyanite inside
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hematite @ pyrite? L-main pit, R-other pit
Graves Mt., Lincoln Co., Georgia (Author: John Medici)
hematite @ pyrite? L-main pit, R-o
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J.M. in uraninite-apatite-massive fluorite pocket. Wilberforce, Cardiff Twp., Ontario, Canada (Author: John Medici)
J.M. in uraninite-apatite-massive
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Jay M. with 22.5 kg geode
Dugway, Utah, USA (Author: John Medici)
Jay M. with 22.5 kg geode
Dugway,
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Jay Medici at work (Author: John Medici)
Jay Medici at work
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Joey Galt around 1100 ft. down in Faraday Mine. (Joey’s husband Eric had his ID stolen by James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, during his flight to Canada) (Author: John Medici)
Joey Galt around 1100 ft. down in
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John Sinkankas, age 10, Paterson, New Jersey
John Sinkankas grew up in Paterson - no wonder he developed a keen interest in minerals since North Jersey is so prolific in them.
When he gave me this early picture, he said he eventually flew the plane the model of which he is holding. (Author: John Medici)
John Sinkankas, age 10, Paterson,
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Malachite on Quartz
Blanchard mines, Bingham,NM
specimen 8cm across (Author: John Medici)
Malachite on Quartz
Blanchard mine
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Natrolite
Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA
1 cm (Author: John Medici)
Natrolite
Snake (Laurel Hill), New
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Natrolite with Prehnite & Laumontite
Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA
6 cm across
I collected this at the top of a quarry bench. When the overseer realized that numerous pockets of natrolites were there, I was ushered away from there (He collected and sold minerals on the side.). (Author: John Medici)
Natrolite with Prehnite & Laum
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Ohio-Michigan fluorite localities (Author: John Medici)
Ohio-Michigan fluorite localities
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Pachan with Barite specimen
Desert Rose claim, Bingham, NM
heavy (Author: John Medici)
Pachan with Barite specimen
Desert
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Prehnite
Millington, New Jersey, USA
1.8 cm ring
This one looks like it originally formed on an anhydrite (small cast is present which terminates the 2nd ring). (Author: John Medici)
Prehnite
Millington, New Jersey, U
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Prehnite
Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA
6 cm across
(back of the natrolite specimen). A "floater" - most trap rock minerals in this North Jersey area are much harder to collect intact! (Author: John Medici)
Prehnite
Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospe
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pseudo
Graves Mt., GA
(1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
pseudo
Graves Mt., GA
(1 cm ring)
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pseudo
Graves Mt., GA
6 cm across (Author: John Medici)
pseudo
Graves Mt., GA
6 cm across
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pseudo (side view of next photo)
Graves Mt., GA
(1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
pseudo (side view of next photo)
G
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Pyrite
Duff quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
around 2 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite
Duff quarry, Huntsville, Oh
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Pyrite
Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
2 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite
Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Oh
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Pyrite
Ross County, Ohio, USA
17 cm high (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite
Ross County, Ohio, USA
17 c
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Pyrite
Ross County, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite
Ross County, Ohio, USA
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Pyrite & dolomite
Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
6 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite & dolomite
Duff Quarry,
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Pyrite (diploid) on fluorite sheaves
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
1 cm high (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (diploid) on fluorite sheav
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Pyrite (donated to Smithsonian) (pictured in ExtraLapis Pyrite issue (German))
Ross County, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (donated to Smithsonian) (p
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Pyrite (Jay Medici collection)
Ross County, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (Jay Medici collection)
Ros
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Pyrite (longest found in past 45 years)
Ross County, Ohio, USA
52 inches long (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (longest found in past 45 y
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Pyrite in fluorite
Duff quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
Crystal 6 mm (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite in fluorite
Duff quarry, Hu
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Pyrite/fluorite simultaneous growth
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
fluorite 1 cm on edge (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite/fluorite simultaneous growt
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Quartz
Dugway, Utah, USA
Quartz geode (Author: John Medici)
Quartz
Dugway, Utah, USA
Quartz g
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Quartz (Pecos "diamonds")
Chavez County, NM
(1cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
Quartz (Pecos "diamonds"
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Quartz (smoky)
Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA
30 cm across
This specimen was collected by Gene Vitali pre-1950 I believe; he called it "blueberry pie". (Author: John Medici)
Quartz (smoky)
Prospect Park, New
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Quartz and Glauberite
West Paterson, New Jersey, USA
These are a curiosity in this locale.
quartz @ glauberite (Excalibur) (Author: John Medici)
Quartz and Glauberite
West Paterso
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rattlesnake Carlsbad, NM (Author: John Medici)
rattlesnake Carlsbad, NM
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Rutile (eightling twin)
Graves Mt., Lincoln Co., Georgia (Author: John Medici)
Rutile (eightling twin)
Graves Mt.
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Samarskite
Webb Mine, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA
4.5X2.6 cm (Author: John Medici)
Samarskite
Webb Mine, Yancey Co.,
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Silver Crater entrance road in April (Author: John Medici)
Silver Crater entrance road in Apr
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Smoky quartz (amethyst phantom)
Sierra Blanca, Lincoln Co., New Mexico, USA
7cm long (Author: John Medici)
Smoky quartz (amethyst phantom)
Si
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Smoky quartz pocket
Sierra Blanca, New Mexico (Author: John Medici)
Smoky quartz pocket
Sierra Blanca,
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Sylvite and Langbeinite
Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
4 cm on edge (Author: John Medici)
Sylvite and Langbeinite
Carlsbad,
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Thorite
Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada
Thorite in calcite matrix (Author: John Medici)
Thorite
Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Tow
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Thorite
Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada (Author: John Medici)
Thorite
Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Tow
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Uraninite
Fission Mine area, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada
4 cm (larger crystal) (Author: John Medici)
Uraninite
Fission Mine area, Wilbe
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Uranophane
Faraday Uranium mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada
Field of view 6 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Uranophane
Faraday Uranium mine, B
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Vivianite and calcite-replaced belemnites
Mullica Hill (vivianite) and Arneytown, New Jersey, USA
13.5, 8.5, 5.3 cm long, resp.
The vivianite replaced fossils are unusual (crystals showing in smaller one). Calcite replacements are common in the US, as is opal in Australia. (Author: John Medici)
Vivianite and calcite-replaced bel
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Zincite, Willemite, Calcite
Franklin, New Jersey, USA
16 cm (Author: John Medici)
Zincite, Willemite, Calcite
Frankl
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Zircons (slightly radioactive) with betafite
Silver Crater Mine
(1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
Zircons (slightly radioactive) wit