Prehnite Cluster – Laumont

These are sweet soft green crystals called Prehnite Crystal Clusters with Laumont. They also have apophyllite. Some also have gyrolite balls on top which could be okenite. We have sold quite a few at the shops as they intrigue.

Dimensions are for the left. And here is the video to help you select.

Benefits of Prehnite Crystals

The crystals are extremely beneficial for memory, recollection, and peace. It is a gentle, nurturing stone cooling down anger. It also helps to quieten restlessness, nervousness and worry. Read more on the Healing tab. And click to read more about the shape.

Aren’t these prehnite crystal clusters cute?

Healing Properties

Benefits of Prehnite

• Stone of unconditional love.
• Heals the healer.
• Teaches how to be in harmony with nature and the elemental forces.
• Renews your surroundings and helps you to de-clutter by healing feelings of lack.
• Stone for dreaming and remembering, it deepens meditation and enhances the ability prophesy is and they can be remarkably accurate if concerns are for personal growth or to further others.
• Use to multiply and enhance one's protective field e.g. add to a grid when attempting to facilitate contact beyond this world.
• Said to help with kidneys, bladder, connective tissues, anaemia.

Additional Properties Based on Variations

Epidote in Prehnite

• Epidote enhances perception, intuition, personal power, spiritual awakening.
• Prehnite brings joy to the heart and peace to the mind.
• as a combo:
  • Gentle, nurturing, and radiating unconditional love.
  • Creates a healing sanctuary enabling you to recognise your true self and look into to the future.
  • Rejuvenates body and mind from extreme exhaustion, overwork and trauma.
  • Said to have assist kidneys, blood, lungs thyroid and loosen stiff joints and shoulders

Prehnite After Laumontite

• Brings truthfulness into play

Geological Information

Geological Information of Zeolites

• Generic name for a group of crystals often found together on the matrix
• About 40 natural zeolites have been identified during the past 200 years. It includes the following which are commonly found growing together in Indian deposits (along with fluorite,and chalcedony):
  • Common: Apophyllite, Heulandite, Prehnite, Cavansite, Okenite, Scolecite, Calcite, Pectolite, Gyrolite and Stilbite.
  • Uncommon: analcime, chabazite, clinoptilolite, pollute, erionite, ferrierite, laumontite, mordenite, mesolite, thomsonite, natrolite, and phillipsite.
• Natural zeolites form where volcanic rocks and ash layers react with alkaline groundwater.
• Commonly used as:
  • commercial adsorbents,water purification, as catalysts,
  • in nuclear reprocessing and production of laundry detergents.
  • in medicine and in agriculture.
  • heaps more uses for zeolites: read here.
• Much of it comes from Nasik, India.
  • Many have become rare as one of the two major mines was closed by the Government.
• Most if not all zeolites a soft and easy to break or scratch.

More about Some of the Members

Apophyllite

• Apophyllite forms a flat-topped pyramid point or if the top has been knocked off then cubes
• Type: Mineral
• Class: Silicates
• Member of Group: Zeolites
• Mohs Hardness: 4.5 - 5
• Formula: (K,Na)Ca₄Si₈O₂₀(F,OH)·8H₂O
• Crystal System: Tetragonal
• Crystal Habit: Prism, tabular, massive
• Lustre / Diaphaneity: Transparent to translucent, Vitreous; pearly
• Colour: Usually white, colorless; also blue, green, brown, yellow, pink, violet
• Read more geological information.
• Special Notes
  • Many people mistake it for clear quartz - however this unique crystal shape will tell you its not.
  • Apophyllite has become harder to get (and this more expensive) after one major -mine (of two) was shut down by Indian Government for safety reasons.
  • Though relatively unfamiliar to the general public, apophyllite is fairly prevalent around the world but little comes onto the market.

Green Pectolite

• Usually green balls

Heulandite

• Comes in rhombic and coffin-shaped forms.
• Easy to confuse with stilbite as similar form especially in smaller clusters.
• More geological information.

Natrolite

• Mine has been closed.
• Seen only as minor inclusions on other zeolites and in Nunderite

Stilbite

• A low-temperature secondary hydrothermal mineral abundant in the volcanic rocks.
• Crystals are typically thin tabular.
• More information in Wikipedia.
• Crystal System: Monoclinic
• Mineral Class: Silicates
• Group: Zeolites
• Hardness: (3.5 - 4)
• Colour: Colorless or white, also yellow, brown, pink, salmon, orange, red, green, blue or black.

Okenite

• Small white cotton balls.
• Crystal System: Triclinic
• Mineral Class:Silicates 
• Hardness: (4-5) Color: white to slightly yellow, blue
• Easily damaged if touched.
• Mostly found in India. Read more in Wikipedia.

Mesolite

• a sodium calcium zeolite, is intermediate between natrolite, a sodium zeolite, and scolecite, a calcium zeolite:
  • http://www.galleries.com/Mesolite and
  • https://www.metaphysicalrealm1.com/mesolite1.html.
• Specialists may be able differentiate between scolecite, nautrolite and mesolite but most of us can't.