A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Jeffersonite (aegirine), Franklin, New Jersey |
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| Description | Jeffersonite is not a mineral name. Rather, it is a term sometimes used to describe a manganese-zinc variety of clinopyroxene related to the mineral aegirine. This 8 cm wide sample, from Franklin, New Jersey, is almost all black pyroxene. |
| Location | USA ▹ New Jersey. Near Franklin. |
| Photographer | Shannon Heinle. 2001-04-24. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1321. |
| Key words | jeffersonite, New Jersey, Ranklin, aegirine |
| Tech details | 729 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 389 |
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