GYROLITE
Specimen gyr-7
$ 60.00Dims: 2.10x1.46x0.90" (5.33x3.70x2.30cm)
Wt: 1.71oz (48.3g)
Malad Quarry, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
This specimen displays one large and several small gyrolyte clusters on a matrix composed largely of colorless transparent crystals. The gyrolite is subtly green, and a loupe reveals that the spherical clusters are composed of rounded books of thin translucent crystals. I believe that the matrix mineral is apophyllite, as the crystals are complex, even rounded, but the common form is cubic, and the crystals have faint striations.