Calcite with Stilbite-Ca on Chalcedony (ex Dr. Wouter van Tichelen Collection)

Item Description

A showy and three-dimensional display specimen from the famous Deccan Trap featuring a 1.7 cm, rhombic, translucent, white / colorless Calcite crystal aesthetically sitting along the side of a 2.0 cm, white "sheaf"-like group of vitreous Stilbite-Ca sitting on grey-blue colored Chalcedony atop basalt matrix. No damage, very attractive and a great representation of these well-known specimens from one of the largest mineralized basalt flows in the world. From the collection of Dr. Wouter van Tichelen of Belgium.