Scapolite Max Gallegos With moderate backlighting

With moderate backlighting

and the “drillbit” habit is next to impossible to find in my experience

Specimen # BOL711B198

then a stark black zone on the pyramidal termination on the other end

At the Tucson Show in 2020

Scapolite Max Gallegos With moderate backlightingA robust and stout Scapolite (Marialite) crystal from this famous locality in Tanzania. This marble occurrence has given collectors some of the finest crystallized examples of Scapolite out there. Scapolite from Tanzania has a unique, beautiful golden color and excellent crystal form which is so absent in other golden colored Scapolites from other localities. Often, they are slender, and to find a stalky crystal like this is uncommon in my experience.