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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM

Fiji

Tellurium with Quartz
Tellurium with Quartz.
 

TM8H9: The crystals on a Quartz matrix are very defined, which is really rare for this native element. Even with its small size the sample is notable because it is a very, very rare species and its excellent crystallization. Chemical analysis revealed that the mineral is pure native Tellurium.
We’ll give the results of the analysis to the buyer.
Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Tavua, Viti Levu Island  Fiji (2005)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.28” × 0.12”

Tellurium with Quartz
Tellurium with Quartz  

NP66AN0: Native Tellurium crystals, the best known for this species, have developed in well-formed groups, with sharp crystal forms and larger than usual. The results of the analyses, which will be provided to the buyer, define the mineral as pure native Tellurium. The locality of origin is also interesting, little known to most mineralogists.
Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Tavua, Viti Levu Island  Fiji (±2004)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.1 × 1.3 cm = 1.50” × 0.83” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Tellurium with Quartz. Tellurium with Quartz.
Tellurium with Quartz
Tellurium with Quartz. Tellurium with Quartz.
 

TT36H4: A single word defines this specimen: fantastic. It has an extraordinary crystallization, probably the best known for the species. The crystals are well developed, sharp and bright, and exceptional size. Chemical analysis revealed that the mineral is pure native Tellurium. We’ll give the results of the analysis to the buyer. We must also note the locality, unknown until now by most mineralogists.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 301 in the volume 39, number 4.
Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Tavua, Viti Levu Island  Fiji (2005)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 8 × 3.2 cm = 2.87” × 3.15” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.12”


INDIA


Quartz with Rutile, Chlorite and Mica
 

TR47AH1: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, with included acicular Rutile crystals and small leafy Mica aggregates.
Sainj Valley, Manihar Valley, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh  India (06/2017)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6.9 × 4.5 cm = 3.50” × 2.72” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2.4 cm = 2.36” × 0.94”

Quartz with Rutile, Chlorite and Mica. Front
Front
Quartz with Rutile, Chlorite and Mica. Rear
Rear
Quartz with Rutile, Chlorite and Mica.
Quartz with Anatase and Chlorite inclusions
Quartz with Anatase and Chlorite inclusions. Front
Front
Quartz with Anatase and Chlorite inclusions. Side
Side
Quartz with Anatase and Chlorite inclusions. Rear
Rear
Quartz with Anatase and Chlorite inclusions.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TA26AH1: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Group of Quartz crystals that are transparent, bright, have cavernous forms on some of their faces and one of them a very well defined scepter. They have Chlorite inclusions and small and very bright Anatase crystals on their surfaces. Just superb!
Sainj Valley, Manihar Valley, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh  India (06/2017)

Specimen size: 20 × 11.3 × 8.3 cm = 7.87” × 4.45” × 3.27”

Main crystal size: 15.5 × 6.8 cm = 6.10” × 2.68”

Quartz with inclusions
 

TD47AH1: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Very sharp Quartz Crystal, extraordinarily clear and bright and with an esthetic inclusion, probably of Mica.
Manihar Valley, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh  India (06/2017)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.2 × 6.1 cm = 3.15” × 2.44” × 2.40”

Quartz with inclusions. Front
Front
Quartz with inclusions. Side
Side
Corundum
Corundum. Front
Front
Corundum. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TBM26AP8: Complete floater Corundum crystal with short prism and well developed pinacoid faces, with sharp edges and very marked triangular growth figures. Translucent, lustrous, and with an intense red color.
Mysore District, Karnataka  India

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.55” × 0.39”

Corundum with Calcite
 

EX88AM1: Doubly terminated crystals of red Corundum, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges and curvatures on the edges. They are embedded in a gneissic rock matrix.
Mysore District, Karnataka  India

Specimen size: 10.4 × 8.7 × 7.6 cm = 4.09” × 3.43” × 2.99”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 0.7 cm = 2.13” × 0.28”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Corundum with Calcite. Front
Front
Corundum with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Corundum with Calcite.
Fluorite with Quartz (variety amethyst)
Fluorite with Quartz (variety amethyst). Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz (variety amethyst). Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz (variety amethyst).
 

LV29AK6: Spheroidal crystalline growth of Fluorite with fine radial striations and curious deformations, very unusual in this type of specimen. The Fluorite, translucent and with yellow tones, has grown on a matrix of Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), with growths of white microcrystalline Quartz.
This unusual piece comes from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 374), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Khadakwani, Khargone District, Madhya Pradesh  India

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.8 × 6.3 cm = 3.70” × 2.68” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 4.6 cm = 2.13” × 1.81”

Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Epistilbite
 

TC16AN2: Spheroidal growth of Epistilbite on matrix, translucent, with good luster and a uniform pale blue color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Epistilbite. Epistilbite.
Epistilbite
Epistilbite. Epistilbite.
 

TB62AJ1: Bundle-like aggregates of very well defined Epistilbite crystals, translucent, bright and implanted on a basalt matrix.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 3 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.18” × 1.06” × 0.55”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K)
 

MB62H1: It’s an attractive and unusual looking group of mostly doubly terminated crystals formed by a prism and a dipyramid. The main one in the center of the specimen is striking for its size and its centered position, very esthetic, on the piece. All are very bright.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (03/2005)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm = 2.01” × 1.42” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.73” × 0.47”

Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K).
Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K)
Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K).
 

MB16D4: Huge, perfect, doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K) adorned by Stilbite crystals. Pretty!
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.64” × 1.46” × 1.42”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca
 

MPQ91CD2: Growth of very sharp, transparent, shiny, and intensely green Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals. On matrix, with white flattened crystals of Stilbite-Ca.
Although fluorapophyllites-(K) are a common mineral species, these green and shiny ones from Jalgaon were remarkable in their time.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 8.9 × 3.9 × 4.5 cm = 3.50” × 1.54” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.51” × 0.16”

Former collection of M.Gabriel

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Powellite with Stilbite-Ca
Powellite with Stilbite-Ca. Front
Front
Powellite with Stilbite-Ca. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NTX74AO1: Very aerial bipyramidal crystal of Powellite of very good size. Sharp, with very well defined parallel growths, translucent, with good luster and a light cream color and on a matrix of pink Stilbite-Ca crystals. High quality for the species.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.2 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 1.65” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.46” × 0.98”

Extremely fluorescent long & short UV
Powellite with Stilbite-Ca, Calcite and Fluorapophyllite-(K)
 

EK92AF9: Very sharp Powellite crystals in parallel growth, translucent with a cream color. They are on a basalt matrix with Stilbite-Ca crystals, partially doubly terminated white Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals and transparent rhombohedral Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (± 2010)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.7 × 6.3 cm = 5.04” × 3.82” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Powellite with Stilbite-Ca, Calcite and Fluorapophyllite-(K). Powellite with Stilbite-Ca, Calcite and Fluorapophyllite-(K).
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
 

TA16F6: The quality of this one cannot be denied, but one must note the aerial position of the group of sharp Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals and the green zoning of their interiors. They are on a matrix that is coated by Stilbite crystals.
Momim Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra  India (04/2004)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.7 × 5 cm = 3.94” × 2.64” × 1.97”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
 

TH63J0: Esthetic radial group of prismatic crystals, clear on their external part and with visible green phantom growths in them. The group is centered on a matrix of white, slightly yellowish, crystals of Stilbite.
Momim Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 10.5 × 4.8 cm = 4.13” × 4.13” × 1.89”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
 

MD97T2: Typical radial aggregate of this find, with crystals formed by the prism and the pinacoid, very bright and with a diffuse color zoning, green at the base and colorless on the termination, with white bow-tie crystals of Stilbite, and on basalt matrix.
Momim Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra  India (04-05/2004)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.6 × 4.4 cm = 4.25” × 2.99” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.28”

Fluorapophyllite-(K)
 

TYZ62AN3: Centered group of Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals with sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform blue-green color, on a small basalt matrix. Different!
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Momim Pada, Rahuri, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2 × 2.4 cm = 1.10” × 0.79” × 0.94”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Fluorapophyllite-(K). Fluorapophyllite-(K).
Scolecite with Quartz

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
 

EXX97CDD: They were seen and quickly vanished and caught attention at the time due to their color and appearance, very different from other scolecites. In the case of this piece, it's in a Quartz matrix, adding to its uniqueness.
Chandanapuri, Samgamner, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.13” × 2.05” × 1.14”

Stilbite-Ca with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Heulandite-Ca
Stilbite-Ca with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Heulandite-Ca  

MA67Z3: Bow tie-like aggregate of white Stilbite-(Ca) crystals. They are complete, very bright and are on a basalt matrix, with small Heulandite-Ca crystals and green Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals. Even being a very common species, the quality of the sample is very notable. The piece is from the Joan Abella collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Pashan Hills, Khadakwasla Dam, Pashan, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (±1985)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7 × 5.4 cm = 3.66” × 2.76” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.65”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Joan Abella
Stilbite-Ca with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Heulandite-Ca.
Doubly terminated Stilbite-Ca
Doubly terminated Stilbite-Ca. Doubly terminated Stilbite-Ca.
 

MQ90E6: A Museum quality Stilbite. It has large crystals, many of which are doubly terminated, and have good color and brilliance. A floater specimen that is, in my opinion, superb.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 17.5 × 9.5 × 4.5 cm = 6.89” × 3.74” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.81” × 0.98”

Fluorite with Quartz and Opal
 

GY27AK6: Isolated globular growths of Fluorite, translucent, with dominant yellow tones on a basalt matrix coated with Quartz and grey Opal.
The specimen is from the Casado Margolles collection (reg. FRM 38), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 7 × 3.5 cm = 3.31” × 2.76” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.63”

Former collection of Casado Margolles
Fluorite with Quartz and Opal. Fluorite with Quartz and Opal.
Powellite with Stilbite-Ca
Powellite with Stilbite-Ca. Powellite with Stilbite-Ca.
 

TC87AL5: Very sharp dipyramidal Powellite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with sharp crystal forms, translucent, shiny, orange in color, on matrix, with small Stilbite-Ca crystals.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Pandulena Hills, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.34” × 1.02” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

Extremely fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Bob Noble
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Heulandite-Ca
 

TBL11AN8: Elongated crystal of Fluorapophyllite-(K), very sharp, formed by the prism and a bipyramid, transparent and green, on matrix, with lamellar pink Heulandite crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.67” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 0.7 cm = 1.14” × 0.28”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Heulandite-Ca. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Heulandite-Ca.
Stilbite-Ca with Heulandite-Ca
Stilbite-Ca with Heulandite-Ca.
Stilbite-Ca with Heulandite-Ca.
 

LF76F2: The groups in the form of very aerial white bands stand out on the slightly orange crystals of Heulandite-Ca. From the David Lucas collection, number 832, and we will give the buyer his label.
Vaijapur, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 16 × 15 × 5 cm = 6.30” × 5.91” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.47”

Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca and Quartz
 

TM13AN1: Isolated crystal of Heulandite-Ca, very sharp, translucent, with good luster and a light pink color, with crystals of Stilbite-Ca and on Quartz matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2 × 1.8 cm = 1.65” × 0.79” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.71”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca and Quartz. Front
Front
Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca and Quartz. Side
Side
Heulandite with Scolecite
Heulandite with Scolecite. Heulandite with Scolecite.
 

MB46S9: Groups of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, of an unusually intense pink color, with globular growths of white acicular crystals of Scolecite and on a basaltic matrix.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.5 × 3.4 cm = 3.35” × 2.95” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.20”

Okenite
 

MB10AM9: Spheroidal growth of fine filiform crystals of Okenite, with a silky luster and a snow-white color, on matrix. Relatively abundant decades ago, Okenite is nowadays a rare species in India.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Bob Sullivan collection.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.1 × 2.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.83” × 0.91”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Okenite. Okenite.
Heulandite
Heulandite.
 

ML14D4: Doubly terminated crystal aerial on its white matrix and the characteristic transparency, intense color, and great luster typical of this find.
Vaijapur, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (07/03)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.18” × 1.02”

Heulandite
 

MD60D4: Huge fan at the top of the specimen on other doubly terminated crystals with minor white matrix and the characteristic transparency, intense color, and great luster typical of this find.
Vaijapur, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (07/03)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5 × 2.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.97” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.34” × 1.18”

Heulandite.
Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca
Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca. Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca.
 

EZ96AM1: Radial aggregate of flattened Heulandite-Ca crystals with sharp faces and edges, very lustrous, pink in color, on matrix, with white Stilbite-Ca crystals, some of them doubly terminated. Unusual!
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.7 × 3.9 cm = 3.86” × 3.03” × 1.54”

Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite
 

MC14P8: A novelty from Munich 2009. Yellowish globular growths of acicular crystals of Mesolite on a Heulandite-Ca matrix and with (analyzed) Laumontite.
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm = 2.80” × 2.24” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.2 cm = 1.57” × 1.26”

Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite.
Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite
Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite.
 

MJ26P5: A novelty of Munich 2009. Yellowish globular growths of acicular crystals of Mesolite on a matrix of Heulandite-Ca and with Laumontite (analyzed).
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.60” × 2.13” × 1.26”

Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite
 

MF12R9: Slightly globular (so called "mushroom") growths of acicular crystals of Mesolite on a matrix of sharp Heulandite-Ca crystals and white aggregates of Laumontite.
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.6 × 4.2 cm = 4.61” × 3.78” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.50” × 1.26”

Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite.
Mesolite with Stilbite-Ca
Mesolite with Stilbite-Ca. Mesolite with Stilbite-Ca.
 

ED36P5: Globular aggregate of white acicular crystals of Mesolite with growths of Stilbite-Ca crystals and on a matrix of basalt.
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 13 × 10.5 × 7 cm = 5.12” × 4.13” × 2.76”

Mesolite with Stilbite
 

EB26P4: Radial sprays of white acicular crystals on Stilbite matrix. The sample is from a locality not well known until recently. The specimen has been carefully analyzed in order to confirm the species. With the sample we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 10.3 × 7.5 cm = 4.57” × 4.06” × 2.95”

Mesolite with Stilbite. Mesolite with Stilbite.
Stellerite
Stellerite. Stellerite.
 

TC13AN2: Spheroidal growth of Stellerite on matrix, translucent, lustrous and opaline white.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 1.10” × 0.87”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Stellerite
 

MV13AM8: Floater aggregate with a sheaf-like habit of Stellerite crystals with sharp crystal forms, translucent, white in color and with a pearly luster.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 3 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.87” × 0.75”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Stellerite. Stellerite.
Thomsonite-Ca with Mesolite and Scolecite

 

TRF49XXX: Globular aggregates formed by Thomsonite-Ca crystals of a very intense and uniform orange color, something remarkable for the locality and for the species, with a tone much more vivid than usual in this place. They are accompanied by cream-colored Mesolite crystals and small, very fine acicular crystals of Scolecite, which follow the globular seams of the Thomsonite-Ca, all of it on the matrix of the typical basaltic rock omnipresent in the Deccan Traps of India.
Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.8 × 2.4 cm = 3.62” × 3.07” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.22” × 1.10”

Former collection of Emilio Ródenas
Thomsonite-Ca
 

MGB96CD2: Botryoidal growth of Thomsonite-Ca, in a color between pink and lilac, covering centered growths of white fibrous crystals of Thomsonite-Ca.
Among the many zeolites from the basaltic platform of the Deccan, occasionally, one stands out for its originality.
Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India (10/2005)

Specimen size: 12.6 × 10.3 × 4.1 cm = 4.96” × 4.06” × 1.61”


Recorded under neon light
Thomsonite-Ca. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Heulandite-Ca
Heulandite-Ca. Heulandite-Ca.
 

TMA61AN3: Floater group of sharp Heulandite-Ca crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent and with an intense pearly luster.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.47”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Thomsonite-Ca
 

TK63G9: The piece shows spheroidal growths formed by radial crystals of Thomsonite-Ca that can be seen on its edges. We must especially emphasize the reddish color, very uncommon, due to the presence of iron oxides.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 25 in number 2006/2.
Shendurni, Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (09/2005)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6 × 2 cm = 2.83” × 2.36” × 0.79”

Thomsonite-Ca.
Thomsonite-Ca with Scolecite
Thomsonite-Ca with Scolecite. Thomsonite-Ca with Scolecite.
 

TQ26L1: Well defined Thompsonite-Ca spheroidal growths, pinkish color, with crown growths of small acicular and bright Scolecite crystals. Very pleasant and esthetic specimen on matrix.
Shendurni, Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (10/2006)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 7.4 × 2 cm = 3.58” × 2.91” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.06” × 1.06”

Heulandite-Ca with Celadonite inclusions
 

TP14AN1: Floater group of sharp Heulandite-Ca crystals with sharp crystal forms, bright luster, and a uniform light green color due to Celadonite inclusions.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Shakur Quarry, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.94” × 0.28”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Heulandite-Ca with Celadonite inclusions. Heulandite-Ca with Celadonite inclusions.
Calcite with Quartz
Calcite with Quartz. Calcite with Quartz.
Calcite with Quartz.
 

CC50AE1: Aggregate of complex equant Calcite crystals that are transparent and very bright, with oriented dark colored inclusions and implanted on a basalt matrix coated by white Quartz microcrystals.
Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 13.5 × 12.7 × 6 cm = 5.31” × 5.00” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.30” × 1.10”

Prehnite perimorphic Laumontite
 

EX66AM2: Group of Prehnite crystals perimorphic after Laumontite. The Prehnite, in translucent pale green crystals, has covered, and partly replaced, the pre-existing Laumontite crystals that ended up dehydrating and disappearing completely.
Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 20.5 × 15.7 × 4.6 cm = 8.07” × 6.18” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 0.6 cm = 2.17” × 0.24”

Prehnite perimorphic Laumontite. Prehnite perimorphic Laumontite.
Mordenite on Stilbite
Mordenite on Stilbite. Front
Front
Mordenite on Stilbite. Top
Top
 

MJ36E6: A larger, redder than usual crystal of Stilbite that has a crown of very white crystals of Mordenite on top of it. While Mordenite is normally not that appealing, in this sample it is of good quality and, being so aerial, makes for a neat specimen.
Shakur Quarry, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 3.03” × 1.57” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.26” × 1.06”

Calcite with Stilbite and Quartz
 

TA36F6: The main, rhombohedral, very luminous, crystal has a notable penetration twin. It has strategically positioned itself next to pink Stilbite and on a matrix on Quartz Chalcedony.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 6.6 × 6 × 6 cm = 2.60” × 2.36” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.34” × 1.26”

Calcite with Stilbite and Quartz.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
 

MA86P6: A novelty in Munich 2009. Clear green crystals, very transparent and bright, with the prism more elongated than usual and with groups of white crystals of Stilbite and on matrix. From a locality near Pune District not well known until recently.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 43 in number 2010/1
Hadapsar, Poona, Maharashtra  India (2008)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.7 × 4 cm = 3.35” × 3.03” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Celadonite inclusions
 

TT63H6: Fluorapophyllite-(K) forms attractive spheroidal groups of uniform deep green color due to the high quantity of Celadonite inclusions that it contains. The sample is very esthetic thanks to its contrast with the clearer matrix of small Calcite crystals.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (2005)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.6 × 3.2 cm = 3.35” × 2.60” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 4.1 cm = 1.69” × 1.61”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Celadonite inclusions.
Celadonite included in Heulandite-Ca
Celadonite included in Heulandite-Ca.
 

TY37D8: Celadonite is a massive unattractive mineral. The only time one can get good specimens of this species is when it is included in Indian Zeolites, giving them a characteristic green color. In this case it is included in Heulandite-Ca that has more brilliance than is normal, is a floater, has two doubly terminated crystals, and is associated with small balls of white Okenite. Rare and beautiful.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (12/02)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 4.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.31” × 1.77” × 1.77”

Cavansite with Calcite
 

MY27V0: Floater spheroidal aggregate of Cavansite crystals with a very intense color and luster, with four very acute rhombohedral crystals of Calcite that are transparent, with vivid yellow color. One of the few samples found with this association.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2008)

Specimen size: 2 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.79” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Cavansite with Calcite. Front
Front
Cavansite with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Cavansite with Calcite
Cavansite with Calcite.
 

MX76V0: Group of very sharp crystals of Cavansite with a very intense color and luster and some of them doubly terminated, with four rhombohedral crystals of Calcite, transparent and with a clear yellow color. One of the few samples found with this association.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2008)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.83” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.16”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Cavansite with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Mordenite
 

NPP52ASN4: Group of Cavansite crystals, thick and arranged very aerially on a matrix formed by Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals and fibrous Mordenite crystals. The Cavansite crystals are of deep and uniform blue color, very well defined, and bright. The specimen, of very notable quality for the species, comes from one of the well-known quarries present in the vast Deccan Traps of India, the Wagholi Quarry.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2024)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.6 × 4.3 cm = 2.44” × 2.20” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

Photo: Pere Alonso
Cavansite with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Mordenite.

Cavansite with Calcite and Stilbite
Cavansite with Calcite and Stilbite. Cavansite with Calcite and Stilbite.
 

ED17G3: The specimen is really aesthetic. Cavansite crystallizes as numerous spherical groups, and as some single sprays of crystals, of a very vivid and deep color. We must mention the presence of a crystal of Calcite, very aerial, on the Cavansite.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2005)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.8 × 5 cm = 2.44” × 2.28” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.51” × 0.51”

Calcite extremely fluorescent long & short UV
Cavansite with Stilbite
 

MQ12S7: Groups of very bright blue acicular crystals on doubly terminated crystals of white Stilbite on basaltic matrix.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 7 × 5.9 × 6.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.32” × 2.44”

Cavansite with Stilbite. Cavansite with Stilbite.
Cavansite with Stilbite-Ca
Cavansite with Stilbite-Ca. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cavansite with Stilbite-Ca. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NNM49AN7: Very well defined spheroidal growth of small dipyramidal Cavansite crystals, with sharp crystal forms, centered on a basalt matrix covered by Stilbite-Ca crystals.
This piece comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 711), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2004)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 3.31” × 2.20” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.63”

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Cavansite on Stilbite
 

MM16S7: Very well defined spherical growth of small dipyramidal crystals of Cavansite, on a matrix of basalt coated by crystals of Stilbite.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.9 × 4.7 cm = 3.35” × 3.11” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

Cavansite on Stilbite. Cavansite on Stilbite.
Pentagonite with Stilbite
Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
 

MM6P8: Very acute and aerial growth of elongated and flattened crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Stilbite. The sample has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.7 × 3.3 cm = 1.54” × 1.46” × 1.30”

Pentagonite with Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca
 

TB56S9: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.3 × 3.3 cm = 1.69” × 1.69” × 1.30”

Pentagonite with Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca. Pentagonite with Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca.
Pentagonite with Stilbite
Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
 

MP96P8: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Stilbite. The sample has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.46” × 0.87”

Pentagonite with Stilbite
 

MN86P8: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Stilbite. The sample has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
A photograph of this specimen is on the front cover of book "Earth Science" (4th edition) published by BJU.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.54” × 1.50”

Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
Pentagonite with Stilbite
Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
 

MK67P9: Growths of very thin, almost acicular, crystals of Pentagonite. The group, of excellent deep color, is implanted on a matrix very rich in Stilbite.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.12”

Pentagonite with Stilbite-Ca
 

NV68AL5: Centered growths of very fine and elongated prismatic crystals, almost acicular but with very well defined faces and edges, with excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with small white Stilbite-Ca crystals. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (±2016)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.2 × 3.6 cm = 3.54” × 3.23” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.08”

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Pentagonite with Stilbite-Ca. Pentagonite with Stilbite-Ca.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Scolecite and Stilbite-Ca
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Scolecite and Stilbite-Ca. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Scolecite and Stilbite-Ca.
 

CB87AI8: A small group of Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent, with a deep green color and on a matrix of slightly pinkish Stilbite-Ca and also with prismatic acicular Scolecite crystals that are clear and colorless.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 10.7 × 7.9 × 7.7 cm = 4.21” × 3.11” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.63”

Stilbite-Ca minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca and Heulandite-Ca
 

HM47AN2: Group of Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals with the forms of a prism and a very steep sharp bipyramid, transparent, with a bright luster and an extraordinarily vivid and intense green color. On a basalt matrix covered with white spheroidal aggregates of Stilbite-Ca and white lamellar crystals, with a silky luster, of Heulandite-Ca. Old piece, from the 1970s.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 14.4 × 10.4 × 5.8 cm = 5.67” × 4.09” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.28”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca and Heulandite-Ca. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca and Heulandite-Ca.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca and Heulandite-Ca.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TV91AE1: Aggregates of very sharp Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals that are very transparent and bright, with an intense and uniform green color and on a basalt matrix coated by nice pink Stilbite-Ca crystals.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 23 × 16 × 7 cm = 9.06” × 6.30” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 0.79”

Scolecite
 

HA37AM6: Centered groups of fine prismatic Scolecite crystals, with visible terminal faces, translucent, with a silky luster and a snow-white color. Very elegant.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 11.4 × 9.8 × 10.2 cm = 4.49” × 3.86” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 11 × 0.9 cm = 4.33” × 0.35”

Scolecite. Front
Front
Scolecite. Rear
Rear
Scolecite with Fluorapophyllite-(K)
Scolecite with Fluorapophyllite-(K).

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Scolecite with Fluorapophyllite-(K)
 

HM280HR: Centered groups of acicular white Scolecite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with bright luster, and partially covered by small crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K). On a basalt matrix.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 15 × 9.5 × 7 cm = 5.91” × 3.74” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 0.2 cm = 1.77” × 0.08”

Quartz (variety amethyst)
 

TV62H8: A nice miniature, very esthetic, forms a crown of crystals of excellent transparency, luster and color typical of the samples of this locality. The crown of violet crystals strongly contrasts with a central nucleus of clearer crystals practically uncolored.
Kakamunurle Quarry, Karur District, Tamil Nadu  India (2005)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.98” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”

Quartz (variety amethyst).
Quartz (variety amethyst)
Quartz (variety amethyst). Front
Front
Quartz (variety amethyst). Rear
Rear
 

TJ56AH2: Druse with a fan-like aggregate of very sharp crystals that are transparent, very bright and with a very deep color. A fine sample, very esthetic.
Kakamunurle Quarry, Karur District, Tamil Nadu  India

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5 × 2.3 cm = 2.60” × 1.97” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.28”

Fluorite
 

TV12M5: This group of cubic crystals of Fluorite is especially notable for the locality. Crystals are sharp, with very well defined faces and edges and clearly show very marked planes of exfoliation.
Kadipani Mine, Gujarat  India

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.3 × 4 cm = 3.31” × 2.48” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.06”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite.
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group)
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group).
 

MK61R9: A doubly terminated floater crystal, completely transparent, bright, slightly yellowish. Both terminations are excellent.
Karur District, Tamil Nadu  India (2010)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 1.10” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group)
 

MC6R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. A doubly terminated single crystal with very uniform transparency and color, pale yellow, showing fine vertical striations and an excellent termination with slightly curved faces and edges.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2010 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 96, page 39 and the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 51 in number 2011/1
Karur District, Tamil Nadu  India (2010)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 1.93” × 0.31” × 0.28”

Fluorescent short UV
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group).
Elbaite (doubly terminated)
Elbaite (doubly terminated). Front
Front
Elbaite (doubly terminated). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (doubly terminated). Top
Top
 

TG36H3: Probably one of the best samples found at this new locality in India. A floater parallel growth of prismatic doubly terminated crystals, transparent and of an excellent color and luster. One of the terminations has the same color as the prism but the other is deep blue, easily visible under an intense light. An especially good sample from a new locality unknown up to now.
Ladhak, Himalaya, Kashmir  India (09/2005)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 3.3 × 2 cm = 3.39” × 1.30” × 0.79”


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