Prehnite finger cast after AnhydriteGreat luster, good color, and pleasing gemminess make this miniature sized specimen and worthwhile piece for the price. The main finger is undamaged, but the side of the specimen is contacted where it was removed from the pocket. You can see one of the fingers on the side of the piece shows the thin prismatic form that once was an Anhydrite crystal, which dissolved away after the Prehnite was introduced to the pocket. The Prospect Park Quarry is

don’t miss out on this beautiful display piece

Specimen # BOL711B276

Several remarkably sharp AND lustrous crystals of jet-black Sphalerite with notably SMOOTH faces – hardly any striations at all on many faces – are gently intermixed and sitting atop a crystallized “plate” of soft beige-cream-colored compressed rhombohedra or “discs” of Siderite

and when backlit

Upon exposure to UV light

medium blue-green colored prismatic Amazonite crystals are intergrown to create this nice thumbnail specimen

Specimen # CUNM72002

and like all Spodumenes is pleochroic

It truly resembles some kind of plant life

Specimen #PREH31117

On the side of the specimen

and then another thin zone with a very pale pink hue