Sodalite (var: Hackmanite) (ex Obodda)

Item Description

These Sodalite (var: Hackmanite) specimens have provided collectors with some amazing pieces featuring some of the largest, sharpest and most colorful crystals ever seen. The colors of the Afghani Hackmanites ranges from blue to purple to pink and they show an amazing fluorescence under longwave UV light. This specimen features a superb, well-formed, sharp, elongated, purplish color Hackmanite crystals measuring 4.3 cm, which is very good sized for the material sitting on matrix. We have photographed the specimen under SW UV light, and the Hackmanite shows a whitish yellow hue. Under LW UV light, the crystal is a strong orange color. It's even tenebrescent, meaning that the crystal will absorb UV light, causing it to physically change color in indoor lighting from a bluish hue to more of a purplish tone, and eventually the crystal will go back to the original color. This is a completely safe and repeatable process. A colorful and attractive overall specimen of this material which has not appeared on the market for a few years now in any significance. Don't miss out on this one as the locality might be nearly exhausted since very few new specimens have found their way out of the ground. Ex Herb Obodda Private Collection, and easily think it could be valued as much as $2500 retail.