Prehnite (good quality) (ex David Burgess Collection)

Item Description

The Prehnites from the O&G Quarry in Southbury, CT are some of the best quality examples from any East Coast locality. The stand up well against the top specimens from the New Jersey trap rock localities in terms of color, quality, luster and size. This specimen features a group of translucent, pearly, semi-lustrous radiating aggregates of lovely soft green colored Prehnite measuring up to 1.2 cm across free of matrix. The piece is very three-dimensional as you can see, and it's in superb condition with no major damage, only a bit of edge wear on one corner where it appears to have been removed from the matrix. A lovely group of this attractive and hard to find material. From the worldwide collection of David Burgess (1951-2016). David was a prolific species collector from Newington, Connecticut, and the namesake for the extremely rare cobalt arsenate species Burgessite, which he discovered.