Analcime (ex Charlie Key Collection)

Item Description

Mount Saint-Hilaire is one of the world's most significant localities, and produces many "best in the world" specimens of a lot of minerals. This piece features sharp, lustrous, white trapezohedral Analcime crystals measuring up to 1.9 cm across with minor pinkish Serandite, plus black Aegirine and bladed white Albite. Good quality and the piece displays well. I'm told that collecting at the quarry is now restricted by new ownership, so specimens will not be as easy to obtain as they have been for years. Ex Charlie Key personal collection. Charlie is arguably the most sucessful dealer of the second half of the 20th century, along with being the namesake for TWO mineral species (Keyite and Ludlockite).