Fluorapophyllite With Stilbite

Item Description

We have all seen thousands of Indian apophyllites but every now and then, something special comes up like these large pseudocubic crystals with a nice minty color! This is a very fine, large, 5.9 cm across, doubly terminated, lustrous and translucent bicolored green crystal of fluorapophyllite which is aesthetically emplaced on a matrix of weathered basalt and quartz druse. It is wreathed at the base by a few, lustrous, ivory colored stilbite crystals, to 3 cm across. These crystals are, unusually, a more intense green color when viewed side-on (and those sides are extremely sharp and lustrous!) Also unusually, small white laumontite crystals are in association. From a well known January 2014 pocket that produced the best of this size and style, to date.