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Vibrant Blue Cavansite Crystals on Sparkling Stilbite - India
This 2.5" wide specimen features a beautiful, deep blue cavansite crystals on a micro stilbite crystal encrusted matrix. It comes from the Deccan Traps in the Pune District of India.
Comes with an acrylic display stand.
Comes with an acrylic display stand.
About Cavansite
Cavansite, the name of which is derived from its chemical composition, calcium vanadium silicate, is a deep blue, crystal-forming mineral. It occurs in basaltic and andesitic rocks and is typically associated with zeolites. Discovered in 1967 in Malheur County, Oregon, cavansite is a relatively rare mineral. The vast majority of it comes from the Deccan Traps, a large igneous province and one of the largest volcanic features on earth, in the Pune Province of India.
Cavansite tends to form deep blue crystal aggregates, generally as balls up to a couple centimeters in size. These balls are typically found on top of zeolite beds. Because of its rich color and relative rarity, cavansite is sought after by mineral collectors.
Cavansite, the name of which is derived from its chemical composition, calcium vanadium silicate, is a deep blue, crystal-forming mineral. It occurs in basaltic and andesitic rocks and is typically associated with zeolites. Discovered in 1967 in Malheur County, Oregon, cavansite is a relatively rare mineral. The vast majority of it comes from the Deccan Traps, a large igneous province and one of the largest volcanic features on earth, in the Pune Province of India.
Cavansite tends to form deep blue crystal aggregates, generally as balls up to a couple centimeters in size. These balls are typically found on top of zeolite beds. Because of its rich color and relative rarity, cavansite is sought after by mineral collectors.
About The Deccan Traps
The Deccan Traps of western India are one of the largest volcanic features on Earth—an immense series of flood basalts laid down by eruptions around 66 million years ago. These layered lava flows, which stretch across Maharashtra and into Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, cooled and fractured over time, forming countless cavities and vesicles. It’s inside these pockets that mineral-rich groundwater later circulated, depositing a spectacular variety of secondary minerals. Because of this geologic process, the Deccan Traps are world-famous not for dramatic lava formations, but for producing some of the finest mineral specimens ever found.
The most celebrated minerals from the Deccan Traps are the zeolites, a broad group of hydrated aluminosilicates that form in the rock’s open cavities. Notable species include brilliant, transparent apophyllite crystals—often mint green or water-clear—alongside delicate sprays of stilbite, heulandite, clinoptilolite, mesolite, scolecite, and natrolite. These minerals frequently grow together, producing striking aesthetic arrangements: apophyllite perched on peach-colored stilbite “bowties,” needle-like mesolite clusters exploding out of basalt pockets, or shimmering heulandite druses lining geodes. The region is also the world’s premier source for vivid blue cavansite and its rarer green cousin, pentagonite, which form radiant starburst clusters on matrix. While the Deccan Traps are volcanic in origin, they are celebrated globally among collectors for these extraordinary mineral treasures—vibrant, elegant, and unmistakably Indian in character.
The Deccan Traps of western India are one of the largest volcanic features on Earth—an immense series of flood basalts laid down by eruptions around 66 million years ago. These layered lava flows, which stretch across Maharashtra and into Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, cooled and fractured over time, forming countless cavities and vesicles. It’s inside these pockets that mineral-rich groundwater later circulated, depositing a spectacular variety of secondary minerals. Because of this geologic process, the Deccan Traps are world-famous not for dramatic lava formations, but for producing some of the finest mineral specimens ever found.
The most celebrated minerals from the Deccan Traps are the zeolites, a broad group of hydrated aluminosilicates that form in the rock’s open cavities. Notable species include brilliant, transparent apophyllite crystals—often mint green or water-clear—alongside delicate sprays of stilbite, heulandite, clinoptilolite, mesolite, scolecite, and natrolite. These minerals frequently grow together, producing striking aesthetic arrangements: apophyllite perched on peach-colored stilbite “bowties,” needle-like mesolite clusters exploding out of basalt pockets, or shimmering heulandite druses lining geodes. The region is also the world’s premier source for vivid blue cavansite and its rarer green cousin, pentagonite, which form radiant starburst clusters on matrix. While the Deccan Traps are volcanic in origin, they are celebrated globally among collectors for these extraordinary mineral treasures—vibrant, elegant, and unmistakably Indian in character.
$95
SPECIES
Cavansite & Stilbite
LOCATION
Pune District, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India
SIZE
Entire Specimen: 2.5 x 2.3", Cavansite: .74" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#340990
