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Mineral Specimens with Natroapophyllite
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These unusual specimens became instant classics when they first began showing up a few years ago, and it seems the supply is dwindling. Of those I have handled, this is one of the more intriguing ones. The crystal is 4.5 cm on edge and has very good luster. Additionally, there are two distinguishing features that make this truly outstanding. First, the Apophyllite appears to be penetration-twinned! Second, the main crystal sits on a tabular Apophyllite that ends up serving as a perfect base for the display of the specimen, and that was exactly how it was photographed. Also, its just huge, the biggest I have seen so uniformaly colored. This is a very fine specimen, indeed.
This specimen consists of a cluster of spheres of olive green, lustrous, slightly translucent Gyrolite , to 2 cm across. It is dusted aesthetically with a druse of colorless Apophyllite and super sparkly overall! Most unusual combination, I would say...
A very showy combination specimen featuring a SPRAY of GEMMY, GLASSY, mint-green apophyllites to 2.2 cm leaping out as accent atop an off-white colored cluster of stilbite bowties. The piece is big, relatively inexpensive, and very dramatic. The apophyllites all have the same unusually modified basal termination of some of the recent apophylllite finds here, differeing markedly from apophyllite terminations of most other pockets in the past. No damage, complete all around - the stilbites are 100% 3-dimensional and complete around their terminations which hang off either end!!
This remarkable specimen features a 10 x 7 x 6 cm twinned calcite still in situ in a gently curving concave vug of top-quality, gemmy apophyllite. The calcite is pristine and the apophyllite as well, except only its periphery along the plate's edges. The piece really "sparkles" in light, which reflects off the apophs and into the calcite, illuminating it from seemingly more angles than you would expect. A 3-diminsional twin of this calibre, on matrix so nicely balanced, is NOT at all common, and I get a piece of this style and quality only about once every 2-3 years
CABINET, 17.0 x 12.6 x 7.1 cm
Though India has for years been producing specimens of both of these minerals in large quantities, the vast majority of them are mediocre, so the really aesthetic ones really stand out and are still quite desirable (and tend to sell rapidly at shows even amongst the tonnage of more common level material). Here is a super-gemmy, blocky-style crystal of apophyllite, with a couple of small sidecar apophs and accenting crystals of peachy-pink stilbite. Sits up artfully on a custom-made acrylic base that comes with the specimen.
A cluster of tall, slender, elegant quartz crystals, sparkling with little apophyllites, and with phantoms of green fluorite inside the terminations. A sizeable and dramatic Dalnegorsk piece!
LARGE CABINET, 17 x 14 x 10 cm
What can I say? Not only is this a PRISTINE, pretty crystal of apophyllite on a bed of contrasting stilbite – but it’s an absolute monster! It weight 5 POUNDS, is 13 cm corner to corner and over 7 cm thick. Now, granted, it is easy to get jaded about Indian minerals with the volume of mediocre ones that have poured out of the country, but a specimen of just about ANY mineral this large and perfect, particularly in an unusual form such as this rosette, is something to be taken very seriously.
A very showy, 3-dimensional specimen with lustrous, brigh tapophyllite crystals to 9mm in size. This is not fluorapophyllite, but rather the more rare form, hydroxy-apophyllite.
17.5 x 7.4 x 6.6 cm. A large, glittering, amazing specimen from India, a real showstopper! It is a stalactite of quartz that has been completely covered with sparkly microcrystalline apophyllite - and on the apophyllite field have grown dozens of chisel-shaped, pearly stilbite crystals. It is complete all the way around, with a narrow area of contact on back where the stalactite apparently was conjoined with the wall of the vug or cave. (Ex.Ed David Collection).
3.3 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm. A striking small mini of apophyllite, featuring a spray of gemmy crystals with deep color rising from a carefully-trimmed matrix. VERY classic old material from the 1960s when they first came out from this region. Distinct sharp form and minty color!
6.8 x 6.0 x 4.6 cm. A razor sharp 5.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm apophyllite crystal sits on smaller apophs and stilbite, aesthetically. The lustre is like glass - top tier. The crystal is very bright and gemmy and is complete all around, making this a VERY dramatic piece that stands out.
8.9 x 6.5 x 4.0 cm. A STUNNING cluster of super-bright and gemmy fluorapophyllite crystals, a real explosion of flash! The brightness of these crystals puts it way above the usual Indian apophyllite. And it is a large cluster as well, with the crystals exploding out in every direction.
17.2 x 11.4 x 8.4 cm. A large SHOWPIECE combo specimen from India! It features a cluster of huge, blocky apophyllite crystals, to 5.5 cm across the termination, sitting right beside a cluster of peachy bowtie stilbites. The apophyllites have crenellated terminations with a frosty color that is really pretty atop the green apophyllite. The specimen was trimmed out beautifully, closely cropped around the two minerals on just a thin shard of matrix. In fact, this matrix extends only underneath the apophyllites - the stilbites jut out freestanding into space. A big, gorgeous piece!
6.0 x 4.8 x 4.5 cm. An AESTHETIC and CLASSIC spray of gemmy, green fluorapophyllite crystals on stilbite matrix from the famous and now-closed Pashan Quarry at Poona. These are considered the best Indian fluorapophyllites, with the last coming out in the late 1980s. This piece probably dates to the late 1970s to early 1980s. The isolated spray is really cute. The only way to get one like this through recycled collections. Ex. Gary Hansen Collection.
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