Tiny purple octahedral fluorite crystalson albite with greenish chlorite, white prismatic crystals of natrolite(?), colourless quartz, and brown pyrophanite. Also on specimen magnetite, Ex Art Smith Collection (collected in 1979). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack...
Tiny pseudocubic chabazite impaled on natrolite with bladed thomsonite-Ca and a ball of white dolomite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Four pieces. Fairly large phacolitic chabazite on natrolite. Tiny later rhombs of chabazite sprinkled on natrolite needles. Photo width 11.5mm. Stack of 40 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...
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...
Wedge-shaped reddish-brown rhodochrosite on and with natrolite, colourless tiny cubes of fluorite with small octahedral corners on thin acicular aegirine(?) (see first crop). Unidentified white platy crystals (see second crop). Width of view 7.5mm. Stack...
Colourless prismatic natrolite with a stalactite of colourless phillipsite. Width 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
Colourless natrolite needles with a pink base, possibly caused by hematite, on phacolitic chabazite crystals (probably chabazite-Na). Width 9mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
White natrolite and red (hematite-stained) gmelinite in a vugh in basalt. Video best viewed full screen.
A single blocky hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystal on a bed of prismatic colourless natrolite crystals. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Comes from a single find made about 20 years ago (~1995). This is a lovely group of 5mm natrolite prisms perched on slender black aegirine crystals. Very aesthetic from any side, and an excellent example...
Fluoresces green. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Mostly white apophyllite with a small number of prismatic natrolite crystals, scalenohedral calcite crystals, and drusy phillipsite. 60x50x40mm. Ex Museum of Victoria.
Single terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap.
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Trevor Warren.
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Neal Yedlin mount. The label is affixed atop another label on one of the old carboard micromount display cases as were popular in the first half of the 20th Century. Display face measures 1.6×1.6cm. Specimen...
Photo width 11mm.
Grey thomsonite balls, colourless pseudohexagonal chabazite crystals, and white tufts of gonnardite-natrolite.
Brown ferroan calcite with a white gonnardite/natrolite intergrowth from the Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
Colourless edingtonite with white natrolite from the Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil.
Prismatic natrolite crystals exhibiting the characteristic terminations on analcime from the Magheramorne Quarry, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Photo width 2.5mm.
