Sodalite (var: Hackmanite)This Sodalite (Hackmanite) gem has a "Cushion" cut and is only very slightly included, which is quite good for the material. It's nearly impossible to find completely clean stones unless they are exceptionally small. Sodalite is a fairly well known feldspathoid mineral, but it's almost always opaque, and gem quality material of any reasonable size is incredibly hard to find in nature. The gem variety of Sodalite is called Hackmanite and this beautiful

but some people are now calling them perimorphs) from our beloved San Juan Mountains of Colorado

“sword”-shaped crystal with a beautiful termination with Siderite on Pyrite matrix

Richard Kosnar

the crystal itself is virtually WATER CLEAR

There is a little bit of roughness here and there

A great piece for the quality and rarely seen crystal habit

This piece really does resemble a bunch of grapes

you can see there is full coverage of remarkable

One rarely sees such fine examples of GEM QUALITY Fluorites like this

golden color crystals of this hard-to-find species on matrix

This lovely gem crystal is very gemmy

so faceting gemstones is nearly impossible