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Gyrolite

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Description
Locality: 
Malad Quarry, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.8 × 10.1 × 5.7 cm
Description

This aesthetic and contrastful specimen features countless spheres of Gyrolite scattered over white Prehnite matrix. The spheres are almost pristine, pearly lustrous and they are showing a light caramel-brown to olive-brown colour. A good specimen despite not 100% perfect.

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
Wendel Minerals

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