FLUORAPOPHYLLITE WITH NATROLITE

This isn't just another zeolite specimen from India - here we have one from the historic mining area of Mariánská Skála (German: Marienberg) in the Ústí nad Labem region of the Czech Republic. Light, well-formed crystals of fluorapophyllite are set atop nicely accenting sprays of natrolite. While I don't want to jump to assuming which variety of apophyllite is present, fluorapophyllite-(K) is the only variety noted to have been mined there. The specimen comes with a gorgeous old handwritten German label, which points to it being mined when the area was still a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia prior to 1918. Said label is split down the middle and somewhat tattered (understandable given its age), though is still almost all legible.