Most samples are thin veins of short needles in Calcite and have no color.

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Mina Numero Uno, Picacho Peak, San Benito County, California, USA	ⓘ Pectolite

	)most important quartz veins systems are:
	*(1957) Reynolds Activated Aluminas are low in cost, have high capacity, are inert to most chemicals. Chemical & Engineering News, 35 (26) 16 doi:10.1021/cen-v035n026.p016*
	Neumeier, G., and Staebler, G., publishers (2003) ExtraLapis English No. 4: Calcite, The Mineral with the Most Forms. Lapis International.
	*(1923) Are Most Animals Color Blind?. Scientific American, 129 (1) 16-17 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0723-16a*
	*Short, H.A., Johnson, S.E. (2006) Estimation of vorticity from fibrous calcite veins, central Maine, USA. Journal of Structural Geology, 28 (7). 1167-1182 doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2006.03.024*
	Personally collected and analyzed by David Lowe. White Calcite fills large vugs with thin off-white fibrous Pectolite veins crossing and surrounding. Minor Albite and an amorphous phase are present as well. XRD reference patterns: PDF 04-007-8659, PDF 04-011-5155, and PDF 01-084-0752.
	*Bohm-Vitense, Erika (1988) Are most short-period Cepheids overtone pulsators?. The Astrophysical Journal, 324. doi:10.1086/185083*
	Most blue spots and especially crystals are linarite. However, unimpressive blue splotches of azurite associated with malachite (affirming carbonate composition) have turned up over the years. Steve Adams
	*Callaway, Ewen (2025) These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored. Nature, 637 (8047). doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00038-x*
	observed crystals are small, colorless to white in daylight color - indistinguishable from quartz and feldspar by sight, fluorescent white under SW (short wave) UV.
	(Lebendun Calcareous schists and the embedded Dolomite are generally quoted as "Mesozoic" in the literature. Galena samples for U-Pb dating are available ( but no one performed yet)

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