Detailed Description A superb, aesthetic cluster of sharp crystals of strontianite. The crystals are pseudo-hexagonal with a parallel-growth habit. In exceptional condition, on close inspection there are a couple of smaller abraded tips lower on the piece. Standing with a bit of support as photographed, this is a dramatic specimen. Amazing for the species. Browse […]

Detailed Description A doubly-terminated pink stilbite crystal on quartz. In excellent condition, minor rubs to the stilbite. From the collection of Rock Currier, no. 2081, and personally collected by him in 1974. A cute specimen. Browse More Rock Currier Collection India Specimens (click here) About Rock Currier’s Collection – India Specimens Rock Currier was a […]

Detailed Description A sharp, light pink, doubly-terminated, stibite crystal on a white quartz stalactite tip. This is stilbite-Ca. In excellent condition, no damage. From the collection of Rock Currier, no. 2080, personally collected by him in 1974. Sweet! Browse More Rock Currier Collection India Specimens (click here) About Rock Currier’s Collection – India Specimens Rock […]

This specimen featutes a yellow stilbite ball (4.8 cm tall) with a pale green prehnite ball 1.2 cm and small epidote crystals. The stilbite has some colour variation, with darker yellow hue down the middle of the ball and paler yellow and even greenish, around the side and back. Some of the epidotes have globular […]

Detailed Description An exquisite thumbnail-sized combination specimen from this find, featuring a complete ball of yellow stilbite crystals and a flat radial disk of yellow stilbite crystals, both perched on a ball of light green prehnite. The stilbite has good colour, lustre and translucence. Minor epidote crystals and a partial fan of stilbite are in […]

Detailed Description This is a super, highly distinctive combination specimen from this locality, featuring groups of yellow stilbite crystals perched upon a group of light green prehnite balls. The translucent stilbite crystals are grouped in a perfect fan and in clustered fans, the central one of which is approaching a ball in shape. In minor […]

Detailed Description Crystal groups of stilbite and a sharp pink heulandite crystal, nestled in a pocket lining of sparkling quartz crystals. These are stilbite-Ca and heulandite-Ca. In excellent condition, no damage. From the personal collection of Rock Currier, no. 2059, acquired in 1974.  A beautiful display specimen. Browse More Rock Currier Collection India Specimens (click […]

Detailed Description White stilbite sheaves nestled among sharp glassy apophyllite crystals. The stilbite crystals and apophyllite crystals are well formed, and the apophyllite crystals have a neat habit, with the pyramidal faces slightly more developed than the pinacoid faces. This is stilbite-Ca. In excellent condition – no damage, just peripheral contacts around parts of the […]

Detailed Description Pink stilbite crystals with glassy colourless fluorapphyllite crystals.This is stilbite-Ca. In good condition, some chipping to the smaller stibites. From the personal collection of Rock Currier, no. 2063, acquired in 1976. Browse More Rock Currier Collection India Specimens (click here) About Rock Currier’s Collection – India Specimens Rock Currier was a remarkable person […]

Detailed Description Light-salmon-coloured stilbite crystals with sharp, glassy, colourless apophyllite crystals. From the personal collection of Rock Currier, no. 2066, acquired in 1974 in Mumbai. In excellent condition, no damage. A classy piece! Browse More Rock Currier Collection India Specimens (click here) About Rock Currier’s Collection – India Specimens Rock Currier was a remarkable person […]

Detailed Description Light pink stilbite crystals on very thin plate of quartz with light green jewel-like apophyllite crystals on and around the stilbites. The crystals of both minerals are sharp and well-defined, with nice lustre. In excellent condition, a couple of the stilbites are incomplete at the periphery. From the personal collection of Rock Currier, […]

Detailed Description This aesthetic specimen is from the personal collection of Rock Currier, no. 2082, acquired in 1973, a year after he first travelled to India. His label includes the following description (which I don’t believe I can improve upon!): “A plate of wall to wall sharp shiny blocky white apophyllite crystals up to almost […]