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MD-120192 - Okenite, Quartz (Var: Amethyst), Calcite - - Archived Vanidindori, Maharashtra, India small cabinet, 8.6 x 6.5 x 4.1 cm.
8.6 x 6.5 x 4.1 cm. A stark white, prickly ball of okenite sits on a backdrop of amethyst crystals, with some accenting little clear calcites. A smaller okenite ball is nearby. The larger okenite ball measures 2.7 cm across. A striking and aesthetic Indian specimen with unusually stout okenites!
MD-166736 - Okenite - - Archived Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra, India cabinet, 11.4 x 8.5 x 5.6 cm.
11.4 x 8.5 x 5.6 cm. A geode has been split open to reveal in its interior puffballs of velvety, acicular crystals of okenite. If you look into the geode, you can see that this pocket runs all the way through to the back, with these okenite balls all the way through it!
MD-174556 - Okenite, Quartz - - Archived Bombay Quarry, Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 21.2 x 8.8 x 2.3 cm.
21.2 x 8.8 x 2.3 cm. On a large plate of sparkly, dove-grey quartz are a couple of dozen balls of velvety white okenite - each made up of thousands of extremely fine, filament-like crystals.
MD-177172 - Okenite, Quartz (Var: Amethyst) - - Archived Bombay Quarry, Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India cabinet, 9.9 x 9.4 x 4.4 cm.
9.9 x 9.4 x 4.4 cm. Snow-white fuzz-balls of velvety acicular okenite, isolated on a field of light purple, lustrous amethyst points.
MD-177319 - Okenite, Quartz - - Archived Bombay Quarry, Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 16.4 x 11.0 x 3.8 cm.
16.4 x 11.0 x 3.8 cm. A specimen of okenite on dove-grey quartz, with these beautiful snowy fuzz-balls of acicular okenite crystals.
MD-178966 - Okenite, Quartz (Var: Amethyst) - - Archived Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 21.9 x 16.4 x 10.8 cm.
21.9 x 16.4 x 10.8 cm. A huge plate of amethyst crystals peppered with dozens of snowy balls of acicular, velvety okenite crystals. The amethyst has a nice 3-dimensional rolling quality to it rather than being a just flat plate.
MD-187708 - Gyrolite, Okenite, Laumontite - - Archived Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 15.3 x 8.0 x 5.4 cm.
15.3 x 8.0 x 5.4 cm. A fine large cabinet combination specimen from Jalgaon, India. Three, superb, translucent, olive-green gyrolite balls to 2.3 cm are set on matrix with one, centrally located, beautiful, okenite puffball and a scattering of rare, snow-white laumontite blades.
MD-187722 - Okenite, Quartz - - Archived Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 17.1 x 16.8 x 6.9 cm.
17.1 x 16.8 x 6.9 cm. A large expanse of sparkly, dove-grey quartz provides the perfect background for about 3 dozen stark white fuzz-balls of tiny, acicular okenite crystals, which are so fine that the result looks almost like velvet. The okenite balls measure to 1.2 cm.
MD-190200 - Okenite - - Archived Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 22.5 x 16.4 x 9.4 cm.
22.5 x 16.4 x 9.4 cm. A large Okenite pocket preserved intact in a vug of the surrounding basalt matrix. Inside are velvety balls to 3.5 cm across (their surfaces covered with microscopic acicular crystals. The okenite balls sit on a bed of sparkly quartz. There is also a euhedral quartz crystal present, covered with a later layer of milky quartz.
MD-206138 - Okenite - - Archived Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India cabinet, 12.1 x 8.5 x 6.8 cm.
12.1 x 8.5 x 6.8 cm. This large, egg-shaped pocket was removed from the host matrix intact, with windows at either end into a snowy interior featuring a bed of micro-stilbites on which sits a row of pristine, velvety "cotton-balls" of okenite. There are a-half-dozen balls of okenite, measuring to 2.5 cm across. These are so often bruised due to their incredible fragility, but in this case have been protected by the surrounding matrix. One end has been more widely opened to give a better view of the okenite balls.
MD-223807 - Okenite, Gyrolite, Calcite - - Archived Bombay Quarry No. 10, Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India small cabinet, 9.0 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm.
9.0 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm. Three velvety-soft, snow-white okenite puffballs are adjacent to two gem, very light amber calcite crystals attractively placed on the front of a pristine and aesthetic cluster of intergrown, snow-white gyrolite balls. The gyrolite is superb - seldom do they get so lustrous or so stark and snowy white. Ed Ruggiero purchased this piece from the Zweibels of Mineral Kingdom in 1980, while the famous Malad Quarries near Bombay were producing such fine specimens. The quarries are now closed, due to population growth. Ex. Ed. Ruggiero Collection.
MD-240230 - Okenite, Quartz (Var: Chalcedony) - - Archived Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 18.4 x 14.2 x 5.8 cm.
18.4 x 14.2 x 5.8 cm. An impressive large cabinet okenite specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. Soft-to-the-touch velvety puffballs of okenite very richly and aesthetically cover the undulating basalt vug lined with sparkly, drusy, gray chalcedony. The okenite balls consist mostly of microscopic acicular crystals.
MD-252705 - Okenite, Gyrolite, Quartz - - Archived Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra, India cabinet, 11.4 x 8.5 x 5.6 cm.
Large cabinet. This is one of the most aesthetic stark white combination specimens from the Indian trap rocks. The okenite cluster of radiating crystals measures 1 inch across while the gyrolite spheres at the bottom of the specimen are as large as 1cm. All this is underlain by drusy quartz. Note the stalactite across the front of the natural cavity.
MD-38447 - Stilbite, Okenite - - Archived Nasik District, Maharashtra, India thumbnail, 2.1 cm
A REALLY CUTE large miniature from the Marty Zinn Collection of a lustrous, translucent, 2.1 cm spray of light peach-colored stilbite on soft-to-the-touch, felt-like, snow-white okenite. This is older material from the Zinn Collection - #1160. 5.5 x 4.2 x 2.5 cm
MD-41399 - Okenite, Calcite, Gyrolite - - Archived Nasik District, Maharashtra, India large cabinet, 15.7 x 12.3 x 11.0cm
An intact pocket containing a big, pristine ball of okenite hanging from the top wall (although protected by overhang), and a couple of other okenite balls elsewhere in the pocket, on a bed of sparkly microcrystals! There are also balls of gyrolite scattered about, and two of them have grown right around a cube of transparent calcite that has beautiful brown internal phantoms! These okenite balls actually have the appearance of velvet, consisting as they do of millions of hair-like, acicular crystals (if you win this specimen, be sure NOT to touch the balls!). A real showpiece! 15.7 x 12.3 x 11.0cm
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