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NJ14Z5: Very sharp Stokesite crystals, colorless, transparent, very bright and on matrix, with Albite and Microcline. These samples were found in 1999 and noted in 2012 in a paper in The Mineralogical Record, and are considered as the best crystallized worldwide and they were recovered in a single cavity that produced very few pieces. This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the Stokesite species in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 07-08/2020, page 15
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Community of Madrid Spain (1999)
Specimen size: 1 × 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39” × 0.39”
Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.12” × 0.12”
Minor fluorescence short UV
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