Description: Laumontite
'Glen Caladale', Loch Eynort, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
8cm x 6cm x 2cm
Laumontite on 'mesolite' with a few scattered brown calcite crystals (to 3mm). From the same locality as one shown previously which is dry and kept in a plastic box. This specimen has been kept in water and is still fairly fresh.
The locality is on the north side of Loch Eynort on a wave-cut platform with large boulders on it.
Self-collected 1996.
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