Detailed Description

This specimen features a beautiful, vibrantly coloured serandite crystal, accompanied by serandite crystals that are almost perpendicular. The main crystal shows colour zoning with a deeper-coloured core, and it also has a few small sparkling serandite crystals perched on its faces. All of the serandites are sharp and lustrous, with fine striations. In excellent condition, with one small nick in the back left corner of the main crystal – this is not seen as displayed, because the optimal “front” is the opposite side, where the colour is stronger and has visual impact.

There are a few other minerals in association – all are small/micro: glassy clear/white albite crystals, dark green-to-black needles of aegirine, (some as inclusions in the front of the more horizontal serandite), sharp deep red-brown crystals of manganoneptunite up to 2 mm, and small crystals that are sphalerite pseudomorphs after willemite.

This is a beautiful, top-calibre serandite.