Route 1 road cut, Calais, Washington County, Maine, USA
Prehnite. M. Ridding collection. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Creamy-white to very pale green prehnite crystal on prehnite.
© Van King
Blocky pale-green to pale-yellow prehnite crystal cluster showing blocky individual crystals.
© Vandall King
Light green prehnite on matrix. Ex William Hinckley. Henry Minot photo & collection.
© Henry Minot
Dull creamy-white stilbite-Ca fluorescence in longwave LED 365nm.
Well-terminated transparent prehnite crystals on a vein surface of prehnite.
Triangular plate of green prehnite (no rock matrix) in sharp rectangular crystals, scattered with ivory-colored stilbite crystals mostly 2-3 mm but a couple to 8 mm long. Lumpy contours are quartz crystals thickly covered with prehnite. The rear of specimen is a flat surface covered with smaller prehnite crystals and more heavily sprinkled with ...
© 2022 E. L. Clopton
7 mm white stilbite crystal aggregate with unusual boxy prehnite crystal, lower left. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.
© 2007 Peter Cristofono
P. Cristofono specimen and photo.
Prehnite from Calais, Maine. Henry Minot photo & collection.
Pale green prehnite crystals over grey quartz. A few quartz crystal faces are present in the center. Ex. William P. Hinckley (collected during the 1960s). Steve Lemieux collection and photo.
© 2012, Steve Lemieux
Prehnite on matrix, from Calais, Maine. Ex. W. Hinckley. Henry Minot photo & collection.
Collected by W. Hinckley in the 1960's. Specimen currently in Hal Prior collection. Photo by Hal Prior.
Prehnite over Smoky Quartz. Collected by W. Hinckley in the 1960's. Specimen currently in Hal Prior collection. Photo by Hal Prior.
Great locale specimen with provenance! Collected in the 1960's by W. P. Hinckley, co-author of Volume 2 Maine Mines and Minerals - Eastern ME. Classic find encountered during road construction of Smoky Quartz crystals with an overgrowth of translucent light green Prehnite.
Closeup of prehnite and stilbite crystals along one edge of the specimen.
Calais, Washington County, Maine, USA
Prehnite crystals on matrix. Henry Minot photo & collection.
Apparently Metropolis didn't have a pre-printed label for prehnite on hand, because the stilbite on this specimen is clearly secondary to the prehnite in importance. The "(2)" suggests that at one time this label may have accompanied two specimens.