A white analcime crystal 20mm across, with orange to pink garnets on a green garnet matrix, colourless prismatic thomsonite(?) and black hematite.
Pale yellow clay(?) coating on analcime. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ragged white calcite on red-white analcime crystals. The calcite fluoresces bright white. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 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...
Labelled as Croft and Huncote Quarry. Distorted elongated analcime crystal. Ex Münchener Mikromounter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless blocky fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals, with some rainbows, on colourless, hard to see, almost invisible, trapezohedrons of analcime. Ex Richard Bell. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a...
Green inclusions of chlorite(?) in analcime. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Ex Francoise Duranleau, Montreal, 09/06. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 photos. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Closeup photo of a relatively thin platy etched/resorbed gmelinite crystals coloured red by iron oxides or hydroxides, with sharp crystals of analcime. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below...
Monchiquite – a rare basic rock that has analcime instead of feldspar. From No. 12 Level (1086 feet).
Colourless hexagonal crystals, as well as yellow iron-stained ones. White fibrous thomsonite, and tiny analcime crystals. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Colourless width of view 6mm, and stack of 30 images. Yellow width of...
Three colourless analcime crystals isolated the rest, with smaller rounded brown siderites, and one chabazite crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unidentified white mineral (possibly thomsonite?) in analcime. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic natrolite on analcime crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Natrolite perched on other natrolite crystals, on analcime. Red gmelinite coloured by hematite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red gmelinite coloured by hematite, with colourless analcime and prismatic natrolite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red gmelinite coloured by hematite, with colourless analcime and prismatic natrolite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
This crystal is coloured by hematite. On colourless analcime. A nearby cavity has a colourless calcite crystal. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless analcime on pink gmelinite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 17.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless twinned epididymite with cream hemispheres of franconite(?), with tiny silver pseudohexagonal muscovite, and tiny pyrite crystals, minor albite, all on analcime. There is also a prismatic hexagonal crystal of epididymite pointing down to the...
Pink twinned rhombohedral chabazite with colourless analcime. Tiny green spots of saponite (towards the bottom left for example) and biotite phenocrysts (not in photo) also present. Some of the chabazites exhibit an unusual stack-like habit...
Plates of levyne with tiny analcime crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Globular dolomite on analcime crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless analcime crystals on heulandite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An interesting specimen with an analcime crystal on blue-grey saponite. The dark areas appear to be whatever material is sitting underneath the saponite. There are two other similar size analcime crystals in this vugh and...
Red gmelinite with colourless analcime crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
A tiny calcite crystal is perched on hematite-coated gmelinite in a vugh of analcime. Collected when it was called Fieldwicks Quarry. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Type Locality for Peatite and Ramikite. A number of sharp peatite-ramikite crystals are present on this specimen. The matrix id composed of some blocky pseudomorphs of calcite after ?, synchysite after rémondite along with lots...
ex Joan Lamond Collection. Specimen acquired from Dutch collector, hence Oost Troodos.
Type locality for arisite-(Ce) which is pale pinkish thin hexagonal plates. Tuperssuatsiaite is brownish-red sprays
Minsoc Xmas Auction
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Val Hannah.
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Photo width 11mm.
Prismatic natrolite crystals exhibiting the characteristic terminations on analcime from the Magheramorne Quarry, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Photo width 2.5mm.
Analcime crystals from the Faroe Islands, Denmark. Labeled as Færøerne, Iceland. Ex John Lewis Collection.
A couple of very sharp analcime crystals nestled amongst pale pink kutnohorite from the Emilie Mine (Bülten-Adenstedt Mine), Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany. It’s nice to see zeolites in unusual combinations.
