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the gemstone that healers wave around to predict the future, named after a Dutch colonel.
means A translucent pale-green to yellow-green mineral, a calcium aluminium silicate, prized as a collectible gemstone and often found lining cavities in volcanic rock.
from Named in the late 18th century after Hendrik von Prehn, a Dutch military officer who carried specimens of the stone back to Europe from the Cape of Good Hope — making prehnite one of the first minerals ever named in honour of a person.
- first named
- earliest mineral named after a person, 1788
- namesake
- Colonel von Prehn shipped it from South Africa
- glow
- grapelike green clusters resembling tiny botryoidal balloons
- folklore
- called the prophecy stone by crystal believers
- company
- often hosts needle-thin epidote crystals inside
lake superior greenstone — prehnite found in superior deposits, michigan, 1830s identified in north american specimens
cumbrian volcanic rocks — prehnite lining cavities in amygdaloidal basalts of the english lake district
australian opal matrix — prehnite occurs as host rock in lightning ridge opal deposits, new south wales