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Mineral Specimens with Stilbite-Ca
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11.9 x 8.5 x 7.4 cm. Look how this stilbite bowtie (6.5 cm) sits up on the matrix as if placed there by a sculptor! Beautiful!
4.1 x 3.1 x 2.1 cm. This was the best miniature stilbite I was shown from the new find at this locality, featuring a gorgeous rosette on chabazite matrix, and intense color. This is new material collected recently from this classic old locality that is difficult to access, by my friend Rod Tyson (a semi-retired mineral dealer and well-known Canadian field collector!).
9.9 x 3.9 x 3.0 cm. A stalactitic column of glassy-transparent crystals of apophyllite, dressed up with pastel-peach bowtie stilbites - gorgeous!
4.7 x 3.2 x 2.4 cm. An outstanding floater cluster of stilbite, with aesthetics and balance, pristine and sparkling. This is one of the best quality stilbites I have seen from this important old locale! In the 1700s and 1800s, Faeroe stilbite was all the rage, and unmatched by samples from elsewhere. Few documented specimens survive today. This is as good as any I have seen, and of display quality and full miniature size, to boot. Accompanied by an antique, brittle old AMNH label showing the Faeroes as belonging to Iceland, by which you can date it to the mid-1800s. Ex. American Museum of Natural History, Clarence Bement collection, donated in 1910.
4.1 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm. Creamy stilbites on a field of peacock-blue, acicular crystals of cavansite! These are actually little gemmy sprays, when you look under magnification.
14.8 x 11.4 x 6.6 cm. A cluster of large, peachy stilbite bowties, piled up on a thin crust of matrix.
10.2 x 7.4 x 4.9 cm. A plate of peach stilbite bowtie crystals, the largest measuring 7 cm, on a thin shard of matrix, carefully trimmed right to the edge of the crystals without any damage.
1.8 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm. What a stunning thumbnail! Here you have two balls of deep peacock-blue cavansite crystals, with the top one capped by a pearly crystal of stilbite! Ex. Noted thumbnail collection of Allan Young.
3.9 x 3.9 x 3.1 cm. This is a very attractive Stilbite specimen featuring an aesthetic, sharp, lustrous, tan colored "bow tie"-shaped aggregate of Stilbite sitting atop green Prehnite with minor basalt matrix. Ex. Brian Kosnar.
18.2 x 13.3 x 9.8 cm. Stilbites from India simply do not get the credit they deserve as they are simply the finest examples of the species extant. This specimen features many pinkish-orange colored sheaves of Stilbite forming a very attractive display specimen, but the important aspect of this specimen is the fact that on the reverse side of the piece there are some unusual "casts" of an unknown mineral. It also has some dark reddish-orange iron oxide staining for a wonderful color contrast. Not your run-of-the-mill Stilbite to be sure.
15.0 x 9.4 x 3.4 cm. On a bridge-shaped matrix, a "cluster of clusters" of cavansite stretching 9 cm across! The cavansites are speckled with little stilbites down to micro size for an unusual accent. OVERALL A HUGE AMOUNT OF COLOR; an incredibly rich specimen! This plate has nearly zero damage - it really is as close to pristine as you can ask. From the Indian collection of collector George Feist, known very widely for his superb Midwest collections. This one is a super old-timer now, from the mid-90s I’d guess.
14.7 x 8.5 x 8.2 cm. An IMPOSING CABINET Alpine specimen of lustrous, snow-white adularia crystals highlighted by gem-like, very glassy, colorless stilbite crystals on a shard of matrix from a famous Austrian locality - Speibing Gorge, Hollersbach valley. The stilbite crystals reach 5.5 cm and this showy piece is essentially damage-free! Remarkable for such a large specimen. From the collections of noted Alpine collectors, Matias Horner and Rolf Wein. Acquired by Wein in 1976 from Horner.
9.3 x 9.2 x 4.9 cm. A truly bizarre Indian mineral, with sharply zoned stilbite wheat sheaves the likes of which I have not seen. Charlie really loved Indian minerals and had a stash of unusual pieces, as you can see! These crystal sprays are pristine, have great lustre, and are notable for their 3-dimensionality popping up from matrix, which accentuates the color zoning. Ex. Charlie Key.
4.8 x 3.9 x 3.1 cm. A perfect BALL of bright mint green, blocky crystals of apophyllite, accented beautifully by shimmering blades of light salmon/cream stilbite. This ball of crystals is complete all the way around. A KILLER mini, just super-aesthetic as you can see!
10.9 x 10.4 x 4.9 cm. A large cluster of OREGON stilbite - with pearly, translucent crystals of a light peach color. Stilbite is so common from India now that it is easy to get jaded about specimens of this pretty zeolite, but good Oregon specimens are a different matter altogether.
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