Natro-apophyllite

  
excellent very pale peach colored tabular transparent natroapophyllite/fluorapophyllite crystals to 14 mm on edge draped aesthetically upon a colorless transparent terminated quartz crystal.
  
Doubly terminated colourless translucent glassy quartz crystal. Three sides of the quartz crystal are completely coated by pale peach coloured translucent tabular natroapophyllite/fluorapophyllite crystals averaging 5 - 8 mm in size.
Origin: Daye mine, near Huangshi, Hubei Province, China
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 4.3 cm (top), 5 x 6 x 15.5 cm (bottom)
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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