35697: Stilbite - $18 Skookumchuck Dam, near Bucoda, Thurston County, Washington Miniature - 4.2 x 3.6 x 1.9 cm 23 grams Ex Chuck Trantham Specimen status: Available Send an email with specimen number to order A lustrous, snow white stilbite
crystal group. Other than the base cleave (removal from
matrix), the specimen is in fine shape and sits well for
display. The locality description at Mindat states
"Collecting during construction [1969-1971] was extremely
restricted to the geologist on the project [presumably Chuck Trantham],
the guard at the dam, and a young geology student Rudy
Tschernich [author of the classic work Zeolites of the
World; download here]. Collecting is now not
allowed." Has more history and character than your typical
Maharashtra
stilbite.
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