Okenite

O´ken`ite

(Min.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.

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Therefore the book's chief appeal for collectors is in the slightly sad pleasure its photo gallery offers in showing us nice, aka "interesting," things now gone, or at least unavailable: specimens of Bingham Canyon apophyllite, okenite, copper, enargite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, and a few others, such as we almost surely have never seen.

Displays of Nature: History, Minerals & Crystals of Utah's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine

From the Komsomol mine: clusters of green ktenasite microcrystals; acicular tufts of white thaumasite; tabular apophyllite crystals to 5 cm, some of them water-clear or showing growth zones; transparent, rhombohedral crystals of calcite in clusters to 5 cm; white okenite "puff balls" to 6 mm; attractive clusters of orange stilbite crystals to 6 cm; clusters of attractive pink laumontite to 6 mm; and sharp, lustrous pyrite crystals on pink apophyllite-encrusted matrix to 8 cm across.

Sperrylite from the Talnakh orefield, Norilsk region: eastern Siberia, Russia

These include such minerals as cyanotrichite, okenite, and some mesolites, whose crystals, if wet, will typically mat down and stick together.

About mineral collecting part 4 of 5: some personal observations, ruminations, reflections, reminiscences, ramblings, digressions, grumblings, approbations, wisdom and advice gleaned from 50 years of collecting and dealing in minerals

Some specimens identified in the past as okenite may instead be mordenite.

The Lonavala quarry: Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Currier did likewise with goosecreekite and yugawaralite; he also brought to America quantities of superb specimens of okenite, and pseudomorphs of prehnite after laumontite.

Recollections of mineral collecting and dealing in India

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