Chabazite

  
Chabazite with analcime
Origin: Table Mountain, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A.
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 4.9 x 3.8 x 1.2 cm
 
  
Lens shaped colourless crystals of twinned chabazite (variety "phacolite")
Origin: Gad's Hill, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 4.7 x 3.1 x 1.6 cm
 
  
Chabazite with minor heulandite
Origin: Drakenburg Mtns., South Africa
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 6 x 4.6 x 1.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ex. Clyde Hardin collection
Sample size: 5.2 x 4.9 x 2.0 cm
 
  
  
Chabazite with prehnite
Origin: Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Sample size: 12.0 x 9.7 x 6.2 cm
 
  
  
Specimen richly covered with lustrous, chocolate-brown prisms of chabazite to 4 mm and nicely complimented by a pearlescent, stacked cluster of poker chip calcite crystals on albite matrix.
Origin: Strzegom, Lower Silesia, Poland
Sample size: 7.0 x 6.0 x 3.2 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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