Phillipsite

Phillipsite

Phillipsite is no longer regarded as a singular mineral.  It has been placed in the Zeolite group.  It is a hydrated, calcium, potassium, aluminium silicate.  The large crystal in the lower right of this image is the crystallographic form.

This sample comes from Sugar grove, West Virginia.  "The original phillipsite material was from Acireale, Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy." (mindat.org)  The ancient Romans used it to make a concrete building material which, in time, became more solid than our concrete.

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Happy Valentines Day!

Rose Petal

 My youngest son, Chad, helped me make this.  Thanks, Chad, I think you did a good job.  It was captured in December of 2004 at home.  It must have come from a florist.

Red Rose

This from home in August of 2005.

If I remember correctly, red represents passion.  Can we equate passion and love?  In any case, happy Valentines Day, everyone.

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Serandite

Serandite

Wikipedia says it can be: "normally salmon-pink, light pink, rose-red, orange, brown, black, or colorless."  From my reading in Wikipedia, I would speculate that most everything we see is Serandite.  It is sometimes used as a gem.