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.
