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Chabazite var. Phacolite (Ordway Coll.)
- Gads Hill, Upper Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia
- Small Cabinet, 6.4 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
- Start Time: 07/01/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 07/05/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Glassy and lustrous, colorless, chabazite variety phacolite crystals fully line a sculptural vug in lightweight volcanic tuff matrix on this excellent and showy piece from well-known Gads Hill, Tasmania. Phacolite is a lens-shaped variety of chabazite, due to twinning/multiple twinning of the rhombohedrons. Ex Al Ordway Collection and traded from Derek Murray in 1990.