Specimen #1362

Name: Gyrolite with Apophyllite

Type: Mineral

Locality: Lonavala, near Bombay, India

Favorite? N

Fluorescent? N

Size: 8.6 x 5.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight:

Acquired: 2009-04-23

Source: Arkenstone Auction

Label: Y

Comment: This is an old piece from the 1980s, with a very old Smale label but also a style indicative of those quarries closer in to Bombay, now covered by parking lots and shopping malls. It formed as a solid plate, an encrustation upon rock that later popped clean off its host as it grew, and now is a freestanding sculptural daisy chain of interconnected gyrolite balls!

Minerals: Apophyllite Gyrolite (NaCa16Si23AlO60(OH)8 64(H2O))

There are 2 pictures on file

M01362-01.jpg:

Gyrolite with Apophyllite, Lonavala, near Bombay, India - 8.6 x 5.0 x 2.3 cm

M01362-02.jpg:

Gyrolite with Apophyllite, Lonavala, near Bombay, India