Apophyllite

  

Apophyllite on stilbite

  

Apophyllite with unknown inclusion

Origin: Jalgaon, Maharastra, India

Sample size: 5 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm (top), 7.5 x 5.7 x 5.6 cm (bottom)

 

  

Small apophyllite crystals on a cluster of quartz crystals, with a green tint from actinolite.

Origin: 2nd Sovietsky Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Sample size: 4.8 x 4 x 4 cm

 

  

  

Apophyllite with stilbite. The pastel-green, translucent, lustrous and blocky apophyllite crystals have interesting inward-etched terminations. Apophyllites of this habit were only found at Lonavala in the early 80s. The locality is now extinct, due to population growth.

Origin: Lonavala, Maharashtra, India

Sample size: 11.2 x 10.5 x 4.5 cm

 

  

this specimen features gemmy doubly-terminated apophyllite crystals perched on the tips of frosty quartz stalactite "fingers"!

Origin: Jalgaon, India

Sample size: 5.2 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm

 

  

 

  

Apophyllite with stilbite

Origin: Poona, near Bombay, India

Sample size: 13.2 x 10.0 x 5.8 cm (top/2nd row), 25.5 x 16.6 x 9.3 cm (3rd/bottom row)

 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  

White to green with chlorite inclusions apophyllite crystals to 1.1 cm in large vug. Old specimen from John Hopkins University collected in 1904.

Origin: Erie Railroad excavation thru Palasades, Bergen Section, Jersey City, Hudson Co., New Jersey, United States
Ex. DeVito Collection

Sample size: 6 x 5 x 2.5 cm

 

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This is specimen is comprised of mostly tabular crystals of apophyllite with a 2.2 cm lime green crystal of datolite set in among them. The largest apophyllite is 2.5 cm across. Underneath it all is a crystal of amethyst.

Origin: Daye Mine, Hubei Province, China, Asia

Sample size: 6 x 5 x 3.3 cm

 

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