Heulandite

  
Origin: Berufjord, Iceland
Sample size: 11.0 x 7.0 x 3.9 cm
 
  
Heulandite on quartz
  
 
Calcite in heulandite geode
Origin: Jalgaon, Maharashtra State, India
Sample size: 6.3 x 5.3 x 4.5 cm (top), 7.2 x 6.1 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 11 x 8.5 x 4 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Rats Nest Claim, Custer Co., Idaho, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.3 x 5.0 x 3.6 cm
 
  
  
Origin: Tambar Springs , New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 2.0 x 2.0 x 1.8 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Origin: Eas a Bradain, Luib, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, North West Highlands, Scotland, UK
Sample size: 2 mm crystal
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
A highly aesthetic piece consisting of a peach coloured grouping of doubly terminated heulandite crystals measuring just under 5 cm across, this studded atop a prismatic crystal measuring 8 cm in height. This crystal is some sort of pseudomorph, replaced by a druse of sparkling micro quartz. Scattered about the matrix are other lesser heulandite crystals and peach coloured stilbites to 4 cm in size.
Origin: near Jalgaon, Maharashtra State, India
Sample size: 10.5 x 12 x 7 cm
 
  
Heulandite coloured green due to included chlorite
Origin: Shakur Quarry, Nasik, Pashan, Pune (Poonah), Maharashtra, India
Sample size: 37 x 26 x 17 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
This specimen of heulandite covered basalt hosts several crystals of silky white stilbite and a couple of crystals of honey coloured calcite to 0.8 cm across which are included with crystals of cavansite - an extraordinary and rare oddity from India!
Origin: Jalgaon, Maharashtra State, India
Sample size: 5.2 x 4.5 x 3.0 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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