Rare Red Heulandite and Peach Stillbite on a Fine-Grained Quartz Matrix in a Trimmed-out Pocket of Volcanic Basalt Matrix Rock
$120.00
Rare, highly lustrous red-brown heulandite in fan. rhomboid, and sheaf crystals with gorgeous delicate peach stilbite in bowtie crystals. The zeolites are set in a bed of beautiful white fine-grained quartz crystals that line this trimmed-out pocket of volcanic basalt rock. Heulandite is named in 1822 after John Henry Heuland, a mineral collector and mineral dealer living in England.
From the famous zeolite locality at Jalgaon District, Nashik Division, Maharashtra, India.
135 X 75 X 35 mm 432 grams