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Mineral Specimens with Natroapophyllite
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13.4 x 10.0 x 6.5 cm. Two nicely isolated sprays of glassy and lustrous, sea-green apophyllite crystals are very well placed on the curved vug covered with snow-like drusy quartz from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. Pearlescent stilbite blades are richly scattered about on the quartz, but are nearly invisible in the photo. A showy and excellent Indian cabinet combination piece.
9.5 x 6.4 x 4.9 cm. An unusual and aesthetic specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. The lustrous, very glassy, light sea-green apophyllite crystals have two unusual traits: the crystals have blocky, tabular form, which is very uncommon; and the crystal edges have rare and interesting darker color-zoning. The pristine apophyllites are beautifully set on the contrasting, off-white stilbite crystal-covered basalt matrix.
A GORGEOUS, mint-green, GEMMY, transparent apophyllite crystal with a perfect termination sits in a quartz-lined vug, adorned with contrasting white stilbite wheatsheaves! The apophyllite is fully 4 cm tall and is freestanding. apophyllite is common, but superb specimens of this top quality are not. 9.2 x 7 x 3.7 cm
7.5 x 5.8 x 4.2 cm. The now closed Millington Quarry is over 100 years old (it opened in 1895). Starting in the late 1970's the quarry reopened and started producing a large number of specimens. This piece has several pale greenish color radiating spherical aggregates of Pectolite measuring up to 2.1 cm with prismatic Apophyllite crystals on basalt. There is also one small gray-tan Calcite crystal inside the vug of Pectolite.
17.5 x 12 x 10.6 cm. This is a giant 10 x 8 x 7 cm crystal, perched on a natural stalk of stilbite matrix. It masses 1600 grams. The crystal is complete, and starkly geometric like a drawing from a textbook - rare in this size. It has a faint greenish hue to it, more evident in person and not exaggerated or even emphasized in the photo. Obtained directly in about 2005, from an Indian dealer.
7.8 x 6.5 x 3.2 cm. A beautiful, 5.3 cm, bowtie-like cluster of very gemmy and lustrous, blocky, green to colorless apophyllite crystals with pinacoidal terminations aesthetically set on a bed of lustrous, pearlescent, cream-colored stilbite blades.
8.5 x 7.5 x 5.8 cm. A fist-sized stilbite with fat peach-colored crystals, accented by 1-inch apophyllites hanging off the edges. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
17.7 x 10.0 x 7.4 cm. A fine large cabinet Indian specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. Gemmy and lustrous, pastel-green to colorless, blocky apophyllite crystals with steep pyramidal to chisel terminations are scattered on the bowl-like basalt vug covered with sugary, drusy quartz. The isolated apophyllite on one end is 6.5 cm and is doubly terminated. A couple of pearlescent, pastel-pink stilbite blades are a very nice accent, especially the one doubly terminated stilbite embedded in the apophyllite crystal.
12.9 x 9.7 x 7.0 cm. A beautiful cabinet piece of intricately terraced green apophyllites to 4.3 x 4 cm across, with cityscape-like terminations that are very uncommon and interesting. The crystals have a floral arrangement, very 3-dimensional, and accented by minor stilbite association. This specimen was one of only a few dozen pieces of size and quality from this pocket, which appeared about 4-5 years ago.
One of several specimens marketed as "marshy apophyllite" from a new find in Nasik, that are completely unlike anything I have seen before. My first repsonse was to think them ugly but, really, they are not...the umber-yellow color is really unique and, in combination with the sharp geometry of these floater crystals, quite interesting and appealing in person. This is a complete , undamaged floater ! This is from teh last show, but since no more was available at Denver and I have thus reposted this holdout from the Springfield Show here 6 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm
6.2 x 3.4 x 3.2 cm. A 3.3 x 3.2 cm, very blocky, pearlescent, transparent to translucent, colorless apophyllite crystal with an intriguing salmon-pink core set on a thin crust of matrix, with smaller apophyllites in attendance. This fine apophyllite with an uncommon crystal habit is from Nasik and the George Feist Collection # 909.
An attractive CABINET specimen, a crust, of highly lustrous, transparent to translucent clusters of pale pink to colorless apophyllite blades aesthetically set on an older generation of sparkly, transparent gray apophyllites with xonotlite from the 1992 find at the Wessels Mine. 11.3 x 6.6 x 3.3 cm
A striking and pristine radial cluster of transparent, gemmy, lustrous and colorless apophyllite crystals with a bit of stilbite from Jalgaon. REALLY SHARP specimen with lotsa pizzazz. I do not normally say that about an apohyllite but this one is truly special 7.9 x 7.0 x 4.5 cm
14.0 x 9.0 x 3.9 cm. A fine cabinet combination specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. "Gems" of lustrous, transparent to translucent, brown-tinted, calcite rhombs, glassy, colorless, apophyllite crystals and a single, pearlescent, tan, bladed stilbite crystal cluster are aesthetically scattered on the elongated, bowl-shaped vug lined with contrasting, green celadonite. Many of the apophyllite crystals are perched on the calcite rhombs for added effect.
Beautiful floater specimen of inesite completely coated by sparkling, transparent apophyllite crystals on the display face (the back is plain ol inesite which is also not bad!). Small brown crystals of hubeite are also present. SUPERB large thumbnail or small miniature-sized specimen from 2001 finds 3.5 x 1.4 x 1
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