Madagascan Eudialyte Standing Display Freeform - 89mm, 413g

Locality - Madagascar
Size – 89 x 61 x 56mm
Weight – 413g

This eudialyte freeform features attractive multicoloured patterns in gently mottled grape purple eudialyte with snowy white and cola brown microcline. Overall, it has been superbly shaped and polished, ideal as a unique decor piece.

Eudialyte is an incredibly rare red to light brown gemstone typically found in massive form. It's rarity is due not only to its natural scarcity but also its alkaline form, which leaves it vulnerable to dissolving in strong acids; it is for this reason that it was named after the Greek 'eu dialytos', meaning 'well dissolved'. It is often found as grains embedded a variety of igneous rocks such as aegerine, albite, natrolite and nepheline. The south-western regions of Greenland produce much of this mineral, but minute amounts are also found in Canada, Norway, Arkansas and Madagascar.