Prehnite

Origin: Niederkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Owner: Milton Speckels

Sample size: about 1.5 cm

 

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

 

  

Origin: Lower New Street quarry, West Patterson, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 3 cm (top left), 7 x 5 x 3 cm (top right), 7 x 5 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

  

Little green globular crystals of prehnite pseudomorph after anhydrite

Origin: New St. Quarry, Patterson NJ, New Jersey, United States

Sample size: 7 x 4 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Light green spherical prehnite with white to colourless quartz

Origin: Osceola Mine, Michigan, United States

Ex. DeVito Collection

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Origin: Patterson, New Jersey, United States

Ex. Eaton collection

Sample size: 6.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm

 

Origin: Prospect, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 3 cm

 

  

Origin: Kangerdluglusslaq, East Greenland, Greenland

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 2 cm

 

  

Origin: Belinguie, South Rhodesia, Zimbabwe

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3 cm

 

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Origin: Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic Co, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Sample size: 24 x 22 x 4 cm
 

  

Origin: O&G Quarry, Southbury, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Sample size: 10 x 7 x 3.5 cm

 

  

 

  

Prehnite pseudomorph after calcite

Origin: Calvinia, near Capetown, Cape Province, South Africa
ex. Ed Swoboda Pseudomorph Collection

Sample size: 9 x 7 x 0.3 cm (top), 8.5 x 6 x 2 cm (bottom)

 

  

A pastel-green cluster of prehnite pseudomorph after laumontite, with small colourless apophyllite cubes perched upon them

Origin: Poona, India

Sample size: 13 x 3 x 1 cm

 

  

Orange prehnite with inesite

Origin: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South Africa

Sample size: 5 x 3.5 x 3 cm
 

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The Arkenstone

 

  

 

  

 

  

Prehnite on quartz

Origin: Bou Arfa, Figuig Province, Morocco

Sample size: 6 x 6 x 6 cm (top), 3.8 x 4 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 12 x 8 x 4 cm (bottom)

 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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