Rare Red-Brown Heulandite Fan with Clear Apophyllite Crystals & Stilbite in a Trimmed-out Pocket of Volcanic Basalt Matrix
$245.00
Beautiful red-brown heulandite fans capped with numerous, water-clear double terminated fluorapophyllite crystals. The heulandite fans share the trimmed-out pocket of volcanic basalt rock with large clear fluorapophyllite crystals & stilbite bowties. There is minor celadonite as well.
This is a spectacular, flawless museum-quality specimen. 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.
105 x 95 x 70 mm, 878 grams.
