Stilbite with Heulandite and Babingtonite (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)

Item Description

The famous Prospect Park Quarry is one of the most impressive (and under appreciated) Zeolite localities in the world. This quarry has produced some amazing specimens in the last 100 years. This specimen features beautiful smei lustrous, tan colored bladed groups and "sheaves" of Stilbite measuring up to 1.7 cm with very lustrous "pearly" white Heulandite plus a couple isolated, rare blue-grey crystal groups of Babingtonite (partially altered to some kind of Pyroxene) which are associated with very pale rhombs of Calcite plus colorless Quartz crystals on matrix. The Babingtonites from this locailty are very distinctive, and certainly some of the most attractive for the species from the standpoint of the unusual color. Sadly, this great New Jersey locality is being filled in for a housing development (like so many of the great Trap Rock localities in this area), and pieces like this one will be never be collected again. From the Brian Kosnar collection who obtained it from the John Weigand collection (a machinist for the Wright Bros. company) A wonderful display specimen of this cool association.