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Mineral Specimens with Natroapophyllite
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5.8 x 2.8 x 2.3 cm. The Fengjiashan Mine produces an incredible variety of specimens, including some really unusual associations. Here, you have transparent, poker-chip apophyllites framing a slightly amethystine prism of quartz.
WOW! THIS IS A STEALLAR POWELLITE MINIATURE IN EVERY WAY, featuring a sharp, vertical cluster culminating in a perfect pyramidal termination atop a small bit of contrasting apophyllite matrix. It is contacted only at the lower half of the back face but otherwise is is complete all around, including the full termination 4.4 x 2.9 x 2.8 cm
10.3 x 9.0 x 5.7 cm. An old-time, fine cabinet combination zeolite specimen from an uncommon Japanese locale - Hirada, Hizen. A rich, striking and well-placed vug in matrix is highlighted by the 2.0 wide, pastel-green, complex apophyllite crystal cluster and is beautifully surrounded by pearlescent epistilbite blades and blocky chabazite crystals. Accompanied by an old F. Krantz label, which dates from after 1888 to perhaps around 1910.
3.7 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm. Gemmy, water-clear, green to colorless apophyllite crystals and pearlescent stilbite blades form a fine cluster from Jalgaon and the Steve Smale Collection. The dominant, 3.2 cm apophyllite crystal has a very glassy, flat-topped, pyramidal termination and the large stilbite is 2.5 x 2.1 cm.
12.0 x 9.6 x 6.5 cm. This excellent Indian cabinet combination piece features a 3.2 cm wide compound cluster of sharp, striated, lustrous and gemmy, tan, pseudo-octahedral powellite crystals set amidst a 3-dimensional matrix of large, blocky and glassy, colorless fluorapophyllite crystals from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. The powellite cluster is pristine. The powellite has excellent yellowish-white fluorescence.
8.5 x 7.0 x 4.6 cm. This Indian combination specimen is superb, and features a nearly 9-cm, pristine, glassy apophyllite crystal crossed by a 5 cm peach-pink stilbite cluster. The apophyllite has incredible, glassy luster.
9.2 x 6.2 x 4.8 cm. This is a superb Indian combination specimen. It features a 3-cm, pristine, upright heulandite crystal sticking out the top of an apophyllite stalactite (that is itself pristine and complete all around). The stalactite is then crossed by a 6 cm peach-pink stilbite cluster. The apophyllite has incredible, glassy lustre. The tips of all the apophyllites are extremely gemmy. Moreover, for some reason, both the heulandite and the stilbite are coated in a microscopic layer of something very sparkly, perhaps quartz or calcite or micro-apophyllites that makes it look like they were dipped in sugar before being emplaced on the stalactite. The piece is pristine and complete all around.
29.1 x 15.8 x 10.7 cm. This is a superb fluorapophyllite specimen from an old find and in a style not matched by anything being mined today. In the older days, in the1970s-early 1980s when this material was first starting to come out in quantity, there was a unique style found at the Pashan Hills quarry which had these rows of sharp, mint-colored crystals standing upright on white stilbite. To this day, the style remains unique to that era. They are more minty-colored, more sparkly and lustrous, and I love the geometry of the "hedgerows" standing upon rolling hills of stilbite-coated basalt matrix. This is a combination immediately recognizable. With long hedgerows on a huge matrix, almost no damage, and sharp crystals to 3 cm, this stands as a superior example of the find. Ex. Marvin Rausch Collection.
12.2 x 8.5 x 6.7 cm. This apophyllite specimen is one of a very few special pieces from a small pocket found about 2001. The crystallization is very unusual. To this day, I have not seen any similar pieces in style, or rather in combination of crystal habit and intense mint green color, as these were.
16.8 x 12.8 x 5.4 cm. A superb large cabinet vug from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. Gemmy and lustrous, green grading up to colorless, pyramidal apophyllite crystals to 6.0 cm compliment pearlescent, pastel-pink stilbite blades to 4.7 cm aesthetically scattered on drusy quartz-covered basalt matrix.
8.6 x 5.0 x 2.3 cm. This is an old piece from the 1980s, with a very old Smale label but also a style indicative of those quarries closer in to Bombay, now covered by parking lots and shopping malls. It formed as a solid plate, an encrustation upon rock that later popped clean off its host as it grew, and now is a freestanding sculptural daisy chain of interconnected gyrolite balls. Ex. Dr. Stephen Smale Collection.
2.9 x 2.2 x 1.9 cm. This is a superb thumbnail of apophyllite. The crystal is 2 cm across, and complete 360-degress around, like a splayed-out cube. It has intense, unusual color. Ex. Dr. Stephen Smale Collection.
15.8 x 12.5 x 4.8 cm. A fine large cabinet specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. The curved, snow-like, drusy quartz-lined vug is beautifully accented on the right with a 2.2 cm wide spray of sharp, very gemmy and glassy, green apophyllite crystals. A large, 3.2 cm wide x 3.0 cm high stilbite floret, 2 stilbite bowties (the largest is 3.3 cm), and a pair of crossed stilbite crystals nicely line up on the middle of the vug with the apophyllite spray. Nearly invisible, small, saddle-shaped heulandite crystals are scattered on the drusy quartz as a further compliment to this excellent, large, combination specimen.
14.5 x 13.8 x 7.8 cm. A spectacular Indian cabinet specimen of gem-like, colorless apophyllite crystals encrusting all sides of the drusy quartz stalactite matrix. The very glassy, pyramidal apophyllite crystals reach 4.5 cm on this specimen. The isolated crystal on the least covered side is 3.7 cm.
18.5 x 13.4 x 6.9 cm. A superb, very colorful, large cabinet, combination piece from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. The curved vug is filled with gemmy and lustrous, pastel-green grading up to colorless, pyramidal, apophyllite crystals to 3.5 cm and beautifully contrasting, cream-colored, pearlescent, bladed, stilbite crystal clusters to 3.6 cm.
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