Vesuvianite (cat's eye terminations)

Item Description

These are some of the more attractive and unusual Vesuvianite crystals to come out of any "Alpine cleft" locality. This piece features several excellent quality, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, "root beer" colored prisms of Vesuvianite with strange "straw"-colored "cat's eye" terminations. It is reminiscent of Tourmaline crystals that I have seen from Brazil with the same "cat's eye" effect at the tips of the crystals. The crystals are associated with a minor amount of bladed, green-grey color Clinochlore on matrix. These Vesuvianites are certainly uncharacteristic for the species!