Babingtonite on Prehnite (classic find!)

Item Description

Very elegant specimen of babingtonite with textbook crystals and a display impact...overall an extremely rich miniature with significantly large crystals for this size category. These remarkable specimens come out of a very small, previously insignificant quarry that, according to Mindat.org, was simply worked by the local farmers.This fascinating specimen can be viewed in more than one plane of view. One direction has radiating, prismatic, lustrous, black babingtonite crystals, to 4 cm in length. The other direction showcases a tabular, lustrous, black crystal measuring 3 cm across, associated with minor prehnite (parked at the bottom of the spray if you stand it with the spray facing up). These stunned the mineral world when they started coming out in the early 200s (2005 or so?) and remain, to this day, the best of species finds for Babingtonite. Valued $1200-1500