A beautiful miniature, this thin plate of orange chabazite crystals hosts golden yellow “wheat sheaf” clusters of stilbite crystals. These stilbites are a super colour! The background chabazites show good lustre and sharpness. The stilbites are in perfect condition and the chabazites are in very good condition, with are minor edge rubs (and incomplete crystals […]

Detailed Description This stilbite-Ca specimen from the personal collection of Rock Currier, no. 2053, and was personally collected by him in 1973, in just his second year travelling to India. His collection label includes this description and story: “A crust of iron-stained white stilbite crystals, mostly small but some up to about 1 cm, that […]

Detailed Description This stilbite-Ca specimen from the personal collection of Rock Currier, no 2061, and was personally collected by him in 1973, in just his second year travelling to India. His collection label includes this description and story: “A 9 cm hollow cast after a calcite crystal. Never been cleaned. The cast is faithful to […]

A plate of orange-yellow stilbite crystals and crystal groups, with four calcite crystals. The stilbite crystals have good colour and nice lustre, and the calcite crystals are partiallly coavered with tiniy stibite crystals. In excellent condition, no damage except one chip in one of the two lower calcites – it points down as displayed and […]

Detailed Description A fan of golden-orange stilbite dotted with analcime crystals, and associated with pink of gmelinite (psedomorphs after chabazite). The gmelinite is “spongey”, with many small hollows. The stilbite fan is one of the niceset from the find, and as you can see from the photo it grew up against the gmelinite. This stilbite […]

Detailed Description A beautiful combination of analcime and stilbite. The analcime crystals are a nice size, sharp and lustrous, and the stilbite is a nice colour. I would personally display this partially edge-on, as in the first photo (it stands perfectly like this), so that you see the fans of stilbite and the pink gmelinite […]

Detailed Description One of the nicest specimens from the find, this one has it all – a large stilbite fan of the top golden colour, sharp, lustrous analcime crystals perched about the specimen, and a pink gmelinite crystal (pseudomorph after chabazite) coated on two sides with sparkling analcime crystals. In excellent condition (small incomplete stilbite […]

Detailed Description Fans of golden stilbite with analcime crystals perched on top. Pink gmelinite at the base. In excellent condition, minor natural etching on the largest analcime. A gorgeous stilbite-analcime thumbnail. About the Minerals and Localities of the Bay of Fundy (click here) About These Stilbite-Analcime Specimens from Five Islands Occasionally over the years, good […]

Detailed Description Golden stilbite fans with sharp, lustrous analcime crystals on them. In excellent condition, no damage. This is a particularly nice combination in terms of proportionate size of each mineral, with the large isolated analcime perched at the top of the central stilbite fan. About the Minerals and Localities of the Bay of Fundy […]

Detailed Description Sharp analcime crystals on golden stilbite crystals. Nice proportions with relatively large analcime crystals. In excellent condition, some incomplete stilbite at the periphery where this was attached. A very nice piece. About the Minerals and Localities of the Bay of Fundy (click here) About These Stilbite-Analcime Specimens from Five Islands Occasionally over the […]

Detailed Description These golden-orange stilbite fans are a particularly fine colour. The stilbites are well-defined with good lustre. There are only a few tiny sparkling analcime crystals in association. In excellent condition, a couple of contacts on the right hand side. A really nice colourful specimen! About the Minerals and Localities of the Bay of […]

Detailed Description Golden-orange stilbite fans with sparkling analcime crystals. These stilbite fans are the top colour for this find. The analcime crystals are translucent to transparent, and although they are colourless, some have a slight hue from underlying stilbite and minor associated pink gmelinite. In excellent condition. This is a beautiful display piece. About the […]