DV14 Calcite, Apophyllite, Laumontite
Nasik Area, Maharashtra Prov., India
12.1x 6.8x 3.5 cm
$320

 

A cabinet specimen hosting an orange (and fairly deeply colored, for India) calcite crystal that shares its haulandite coated matrix with stilbite, apophyllite, and laumontite (that"s 5 total species!)

 

Although there are 5 species on this piece, they are arranged very delicately and aesthetically, not at all the jumble you would expect from so many species in such close proximity.  

 

I have stabilized the laumontite (the white crystals to the left of the calcite) with white glue.  The reason you never really see laumontite specimens from India (or from anywhere else) is that they lose their moisture, and then they crumble away, usually after a couple months.  That would undoubtedly have happened to this specimen, but I obtained it probably within a couple weeks of it coming out of the ground.  As such, I was able to preserve it as it was found, which in my opinion is quite beautiful.

 

On another note, as far as India is concerned, I can only recall seeing calcites of this habit and color from Wagholi (the cavansite locality) though those are rarely larger than 1 cm.

 








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