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SCOLECITE
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra, India
One of the paradoxes of the mineral collecting world revolves around a group of minerals with similar chemistries called Zeolites. The supply of low grade specimens is seemingly bottomless. In spite of that, the number of fine to excellent examples, like this Scolecite on matrix are extremely limited. A radiating group of colorless Scolecite prisms form a hemispherical group nestled into an elongate cavity lined with cream colored Stilbite crystals. The Scolecite "ball" stretches some 4 inches across. It is completely undamaged and very striking in appearance. The matrix is the typical massive basalt. It measures 9 inches by 6 inches by 1 ¾ inches and has a custom labeled base.

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