Calcite with Apophyllite Natural Mineral Specimen

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Features: Alluring calcite yellow cube with Apophyllite Natural Mineral SpecimenPrimary Mineral(s): ApophylliteSecondary Mineral(s): CalciteSize : 2 Inch x 2 InchWeight : 118 GmsLocality: Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India

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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions5.1 x 5.1 cm
Weight118 grams
Added on10/28/2024

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DateCollectorAcquisition price
Unknown Owner$120.00
Superb MineralsNot disclosed

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Apophyllite
Mineral guide
Learn about Apophyllite
glassy, fish-tail crystals; colorless to green. Great for display and provenance. Key sources: Deccan Traps (India), New Jersey; collecting value.
Apophyllite
Regional guide
Apophyllite from Jalgaon District, India
Jalgaon District is one of the great modern names in apophyllite collecting: a Deccan Trap basalt locality where glassy, geometric fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals emerge from dark volcanic rock with the kind of sculptural contrast collectors remember. The best pieces combine water-clear to mint-green apophyllite with peach stilbite, brown heulandite, sugary chalcedony, quartz crusts, celadonite-rich matrix, calcite, and, more rarely, powellite. The visual language is unmistakably Indian Deccan: bright vitreous faces, steep pyramidal terminations, pseudocubic outlines, and vug-shaped matrix plates that still read as sections of the original cavity.