Okenite

  
Okenite with gyrolite in quartz vug
Origin: Poona, near Bombay, India
Sample size: 11.5 x 9 x 8 cm
 
  
  
Okenite on chalcedony geode
  
Okenite and gyrolite
Origin: Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Sample size: 10.7 x 9.0 x 7.0 cm (top/2nd/3rd row), 8.3 x 5.8 x 4.8 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Malad Quarry, Bombay, India
Sample size: 15.3 x 9.7 x 5.7 cm
 
  
Okenite in pocket with calcite and gyrolite
Origin: Nasik, Maharashtra, India
Sample size: 15.7 x 12.3 x 11.0 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
White acicular "puff balls" of okenite to 25 mm in diameter on matrix with pale greenish to colourless balls of gyrolite crystals to 28 mm in diameter.
Origin: Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
Sample size: 9.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm
 
Okenite on prehnite
Origin: Bombay, India
Ex. Willard Perkin collection
Sample size: 25 x 22 x 10 mm (top), 23 x 21 x 11 mm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
Origin: Bombay, India
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 3.9 x 2.9 x 3 cm (top), 6.3 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
 
  
Okenite on prehnite
Origin: Bombay, India
Sample size: 10 x 6 x 3 cm (top/2nd row), 7 x 5 x 4 cm (3rd/bottom row)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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