Natrolite

  
Natrolite  crystals to 6 mm with clear edingtonite crystals (<0.5 mm) on the terminations
Origin: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, São Paulo State, Brazil
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
Natrolite  crystals to 6 mm with clear edingtonite crystals (<0.5 mm) on the terminations with calcite
Origin: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, São Paulo State, Brazil
Sample size: 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 cm
 
  
Origin: Horseshoe Dam, Arizona, USA
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm, crystals to 4 mm
 
  
Origin: Tick Canyon, Los Angeles Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm, with white, prismatic crystals to 5 mm diameter
 
  
Natrolite on albite
Origin: Big Rock Quarry, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 4 cm
 
Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Natrolite on datolite with stilpnomelane
Origin: Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6.3 x 3.5 cm
 
   
Small, sparkly, acicular natrolite crystals on a pink rhodonite matrix.
Origin: Aussig, Bohemia, Czeckoslavakia
Ex. Dave Douglass collection
Sample size: 10 x 6 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  
Origin: Springfield, Lane Co, Oregon, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6 x 5.5 x 5 cm
 
  
  
 
  
Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 7.1 x 5 x 2.5 cm (top/2nd row), 4.4 x 0.5 x 0.3cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Bound Brook, Somerset Co., New Jersey, U.S.A.
Sample size: 13.5 x 3.6 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
An open vug completely lined by pinkish to colorless micro acicular natrolite crystals. There are colorless opaque crystals of fluorapophyllite to 7 mm scattered about these natrolite crystals.
Origin: Ustí nad Labem (Aussig), Bohemia, Czech Republic
Sample size: 11.3 x 8.7 x 6 cm
 
  
Origin: South Island, New Zealand
Sample size: 3 x 4 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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