Rare Brown Heulandite Fans with Clear Apophyllite Crystals & Stalactite Chalcedony in a Trimmed-out Pocket of Volcanic Basalt Matrix
Multiple highly lustrous, 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 clear fluorapophyllite crystals on gray chalcedony. 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.
155 x 75 x 60 mm, 742 grams.
Multiple highly lustrous, 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 clear fluorapophyllite crystals on gray chalcedony. 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.
155 x 75 x 60 mm, 742 grams.
Multiple highly lustrous, 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 clear fluorapophyllite crystals on gray chalcedony. 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.
155 x 75 x 60 mm, 742 grams.
