GYROLITE
Specimen gyr-3
$ 32.00Dims: 2.7" x 1.9" x 1.5"(6.9 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm)
Wt: 3.17 oz.(90.1 g)
Bombay, India
Hundreds of small green Gyrolite aggregates that are mostly intergrown rest on the prehnite host rock of this specimen. They have a dark gray-green color and a dull, silky luster, and are dimly translucent. All are spherical in shape and striations on them are easy to see, denoting the crystals that make up each globule. A few are broken and a few are slightly damaged, but they make up less than 1% of the total number of these little orbs. They rest on a dull white layer of prehnite that is translucent and has a dull luster. The prehnite rests on an all-but-invisible layer of tiny, clear quartz crystals. There are a few bits of what appears to be okenite among the Gyrolites, too. I really liked examining this specimen because of the variety of materials that constitutes it.