- PAS-90
- Anatase
- West Quincy, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
- Cabinet, 9.6 x 8.5 x 6.2 cm
- Ex. Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
- SOLD
Apparently given to the Academy by the great mineralogist Charles Palache, this specimen has rare anatase crystals from Massachusetts. They are hard to see, but present as sub-mm orange-brown crystals amidst diopside and other minerals on this handsized specimen. Significant and rare for the locality. From the MINDAT entry on this locality: Pegmatite pipes in a riebeckite-aegirine granite. Granite quarry opened before 1856. (Note: Often simply referred to as the Quincy Quarry.