Chabazite

Greyish phacolitic chabazite (probably Na) crystals in the left-hand cavity. Ferroan calcite in the right hand cavity

Origin: Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Sample size: 90 mm across

Sample owner: Keith & Margaret Brown

 

Origin: Otago Peninsula, New Zealand

Sample size:  unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

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Origin: Teviot Brook, Boonah Shire, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 0.5 mm crystal

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Vic Cloete 

 

  

Phacolite is a  lens-shaped variety of chabazite characterized by twinning/multiple twinning of the rhombohedrons.

Origin: Corporation Quarry, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Ex. Marty Lewadny collection

Sample size: 4.0 x 3.3 x 1.8 cm

 

  

Origin: Wasson’s Bluff, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sample size: 9 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm

 

  

  

Lustrous, interpenetrating, salmon-pink chabazite rhombs to 1.7 cm are nicely scattered on matrix with glassy, colourless heulandite crystals.

Origin: Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ex. Marty Lewadny collection

Sample size: 7.5 x 5.0 x 3.7 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  

Origin: Wassans Bluff, Parriboro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ex. Polak collection

Sample size: 6 x 5 x 2.5 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  

Origin: Wasson's Bluff, Parrsboro, Bay of Fundy, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

Sample size: 7.3 x 4.5 x 4.1 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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