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Gyrolite & Okenite

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Gyrolite & Okenite

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Description
Locality: 
Bombay Quarry, Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 8.2 × 5.1 cm
Description

A fine cabinet combination specimen from Bombay Quarry, India. Several, superb, translucent, bright olive-green gyrolite balls to 1,6 cm are set on matrix with some beautiful, okenite puffball and a scattering of white laumontite blades. A good and mostly pristine specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gyrolite

Formula: 
NaCa16Si23AlO60(OH)8·14H2O
Strunz: 
9.EE.30
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
The Storr, Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, North West Highlands (Inverness-shire), Scotland, UK

Okenite

Formula: 
CaSi2O5·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.40
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Qutdligssat (Kudlisat), Qeqertarsuaq Island (Disko Island), Qaasuitsup, Greenland
Wendel Minerals

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