Marcasite Rods, Golden Scalenohedral Calcite & Double-Terminated Quartz on Pink Dolomite from Niagara Falls, New York, USA

Hi All,

Here's a new specimen from New York State that I just acquired for my collection, which I thought I would share with everyone. This specimen features iridescent Marcasite rods, golden scalenohedral Calcite & double-terminated gwm clear Quartz on pink Dolomite from LaFarge's Lockport Quarry in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, USA. This locality is not widely collected, and specimens from here are fairly uncommon, especially nicer combination specimens such as this one. The presence of the tiny Marcasite rods throughout are a rare addition as well, as they are not commonly found.

Pic #1 - Overall view of the specimen

Pic #2 - Closeup view of the center of the specimen

Pic #3 - Another closeup view of the specimen, which focuses on the gemmy quartz and saddle-shaped dolomite crystals, and also shows a stubby marcasite rod to the left of the pic.

Pic #4 - Another closeup view of the specimen, which focuses on the gemmy quartz and saddle-shaped dolomite crystals.

Pic #5 - A more magnified closeup view of the specimen, which focuses on one of the nicer marcasite rods which is nestled under a golden calcite crystal.

Pic #6 - An even more magnified closeup view of the specimen, which focuses on one of the nicer marcasite rods and illustrates the beautiful iridescence of the marcasite crystals.

Pic #7 - A closeup view of the specimen, which focuses on one of the golden calcite crystals.

Thanks for looking at my mineral specimen pictures! I hope that you enjoyed them, and maybe even learned a bit about rocks and minerals in the process!

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Best,

@therockman

Nice :D That's a cool looking specimen, i'm a bit jealous.

I'm glad that you enjoyed it! I jumped on it when I saw it, since it's so difficult to get nice specimens from more obscure localities like this, and I absolutely love the marcasite rods in particular!

Minerals and crystals in particular have always interested me, I have some knowledge of different types, but pretty basic. I have a small collection of full structure crystal (i.e quartz and amethyst "wands"), and then an array of large tumble stones. MY favourite specimen is however an iron nickel meteorite :D

I've always loved rocks and minerals, but I've gotten into them very heavily over the last 5 years or so. My house looks like a museum at this point!

I have a few smaller meteorite pieces, and I particularly like the ones that have the Widmanstätten patterns in them. That's basically just a fancy name for patters like this that form in the internal structure of some metallic meteorites, which forms a crosshatched pattern when you slice them.

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Nice :) Yeah these I like a lot. I have presented a work shop on meteorites with the museum so have a fairly good knowledge of the types. It's interesting how the cooling process of individual octahedrites is understood by the the pattern.

If you're interested i wrote an article a few weeks back about them.

Take care dude.

Cool! I'll definitely give it a look tonight after work, or over the weekend! I know far less about meteorites than I do about rocks and minerals!

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In my life, it was the first time I saw this thing.

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