APA2111 Price: SOLD
APOPHYLLITE-(KF) on STILBITE-Ca
Well No. 2, Momin Akhada, Rahuri Town
Deccan Volcanic Province
Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra, India
Small Cabinet (7.3 x 5.4 x 5.6 cm)
A superbly aesthetic specimen consisting of transparent green to colorless orthorhombic apophyllite-(KF) crystals to 2.5 cm long with green centers, grading to colorless near the flat terminations. The main 2.5 x 3.0 x 4.0 cm apophyllite-(KF) cluster sits atop a matrix of cream-colored stilbite-Ca crystals. Minor laumontite is also present as small white prisms in amongst the stilbites. Damage-free, except for some contacting in the stilbites around the periphery of the specimen. Discovered during the sinking of a village well in the village of Momin Akhada in late 2000. For more information about this occurrence, see the special “Indian Zeolites” issue of Mineralogical Record, Volume 34, Number 1 (2003), pages 30 and 77.
148 $200