Colour Gem imitated (ct) 1 Green Emerald 5.35 2 Green Emerald 3.86 3 Blue-green Paraiba tourmaline 1.71 4 Blue-green Paraiba tourmaline 3.36 5 Red Rubellite 4.45 6 Orange Spessartine 4.71 7 Violet Tanzanite 4.49 8 Yellow-green Peridot 8.83 9 Light blue Aquamarine 7.54 10 Light blue Topaz 8.64 11 Orangey pink Morganite 8.21 12 Violet Amethyst 8.66 13 Violet and yellow Ametrine 8.30 14 Red and green Bicoloured tourmaline 8.37 15 Milky green
Prehnite 8.48 16 Colourless with Gold-in-quartz 13.79 'golden' inclusions 17 Colourless with Rutilated or 2.29 narrow foil strips tourmalinated quartz 18 Various iridescent Girasol 4.28 Internal features Crown/ In crown and No.
Other secondary minerals are carbonate, sericite,
prehnite, titanite, chlorite, and minor epidote and hematite.
La chlorite, la
prehnite et la pumpellyite mineralisee de facon eparse presentes, indiquent que les roches ont atteint le stade d'un facies a prehnite-actinolite.
You can match the range to pretty much any outfit choice, from the lime green
prehnite, the smoky brown tiger's eyes and the deep blue lapis lazuli.
These mineral species described are: Hornblende, Epidote, Piemontite, Chabazite,
Prehnite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Clinozoisite, Dravite var Tourmaline, Chlorite, Garnet var Almandine, Sulphur (as free crystals), Calcite, Kaolinite, Hyalite Opal.
Subsequently, albitisation transformed scapolite metagabbro and regionally distributed mafic and granitoid rocks to albitites, dominated by albite, with varying amounts of rutile, carbonate, chlorite, and locally
prehnite, pumpellyite, and analcime.
The left label shown here is from the Mineralogical Record Label Archive (from Ron Bentley's collection), and the one on the right (still attached to a
prehnite specimen) was recently shown to us by Kelly Nash.
At low temperature (<200[degrees]C), Na-Ca-bearing zeolites, trioctahedral (Ca)-Mg-Fe-bearing smectites, and calcite were stable, whereas at high temperature (>200[degrees]C), these minerals were replaced by chlorite-(Mg-Fe), albite, quartz, and Ca-bearing aluminosilicates, including epidote, wairakite,
prehnite, and clinozoisite.
Although not a major producer of collector-quality specimens, it has yielded fine examples of heulandite, stilbite, calcite, chalcedony, datolite and
prehnite.
The alteration products are mainly saussurite (i.e., fine-grained aggregate of epidote group minerals, albite,
prehnite, sericite, and possibly clays).
The regular octahedrons rest on colorless and smoky quartz and are accompanied by other minerals including
prehnite, sphene and adularia.
Beautiful yellow-green, transparent
prehnite in spheres, hemispheres and "crests" on matrix of graphite-infused rock, from the Merelani mines, Arusha, Tanzania--see the photos in the recent "Tanzanite Issue" (September-October 2009)--has sold for rather high prices in some quarters during the past three years or so, but excellent toenails and small miniatures of the material could be had for $15 to $45 from The Crystal Circle, LLC (www.crystalcircle.com).