Info: Apophylite can often be found in well grown crystals with different habitus. It can create crystals with tetragonal bypyramids. The crystals of Apophylite can grow up to enormous sizes. Apophylite can have different colour, most favoured are pink, green and blue crystals. It can be translucent or opaque.
How to recognize: Apophylite can be melted into white glass, or dissolved in hydrochloric acid.
Found: Apophylite was found in Poonahu near Bombay (India), Seiser Alm (Austria), Kongsberg (Norway) and in St. Anders and Saasbach (Germany). In Czech Republic apophylite was found in České středohoří.
| Crystal structure |
| Rhombic |
| Hardness |
| 4,5 - 5 |
| Color |
| Colourless, various colours |
| Luster |
| Pearl to glass |
