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Malone Marble Quarry, Help id

Collected at the Malone Marble Quarry on our last trip, can anyone id the greenish yellow crystal, semi transparent. Don’t know if i will ever be able to expose it any more without damage.
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Posted by Robert Montgomery on June 25th, 2013 Posted in ID Zone

1 Comment

  1. Mark Stanley says:
    June 26, 2013 at 11:19 am

    The dark green colour would suggest Vesuvianite. If it is the very pale greenish mineral that you want to identify, it looks like a Calcite or Quartz cast of the Vesuiviante crystals. Have you done a hardness test on it?

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