Thin hexagonal plates of levyne. Nearby cavities have phillipsite or chabazite. Ex Mat Latham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled La Palma (Insel), Puerto de Tazacorte, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Kanarische Inseln, Spain. Ex Manfred Früchtl. Analcime trapezohedron modified by a cube (hard to capture in the photo) with white phillipsite and stubby white bladed thomsonite(?). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below...
White/colourless twinned zoned gmelinite on a bed of phillipsite. White flowery tacharanite bottom right. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of calcite crystals on a calcite ball in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 34 images (whitelight), 16 (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A group of dark calcite crystals that show zoning under longwave ultraviolet light in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 56 images (whitelight), 30 (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A steeply-terminated calcite crystal with a dark core in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. The main calcite crystal fluoresces orange under longwave ultraviolet light. A second partial brown calcite fluoresces bright white. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 80 images (whitelight), 17 (UV)....
Cream ball of gyrolite with white tacharanite on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Slightly yellowish tabular crystals of hydroxyapophyllite-(K) on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A specimen of pseudocubic chabazite and twinned phillipsite in a vugh in basalt labelled as ‘Cairns, Queensland’ that was collected probably in the 1970s or early 1980s. All I can find out is that the town is built on ‘recent superficial deposits derived from the Barron River’ and that ‘the...
Off-white barite aggregates on iron-stained phillipsite with tiny black goethite balls. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed balls of thomsonite crystals with natrolite needles sticking out, well-formed phillipsite and phacolitic chabazite (the latter two not in photo). Collected by me. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White blocky crystals of fluorapophyllite-(K), some corroded, on a bed of phillipsite, with natrolite and calcite, some of which are perched on natrolite needles. Main image width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous twinned phillipsite (Stemple twin?). The smaller crystals in the image looked like possible pseudohexagonal chabazite under the microscope, but in the photo, it is clear that they too, are phillipsites. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Frank Robinson.
An unusual specimen. I am unaware of other zeolite specimens from Sunbury, although the basalt quarries do produce calcite and aragonite. This specimen also has what looks like calcite-coated prismatic augite crystals, unlike any other Victorian zeolite localities I have seen. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this specimen is...
Colourless prismatic natrolite with a stalactite of colourless phillipsite. Width 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
Phacolite habit of chabazite. Brown ferroan calcite is fluorescent and phosphorescent. Width 11mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
Mostly white apophyllite with a small number of prismatic natrolite crystals, scalenohedral calcite crystals, and drusy phillipsite. 60x50x40mm. Ex Museum of Victoria.
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
White aggregates on phillipsite with pale green prismatic crystals of aegirine-augite
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria.
