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Okenite

Puffballs of fine white fibers that look like cotton or snowballs inside basalt cavities.

Okenite specimen
Photo: Kora27, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

How to identify okenite

  • Fluffy white fiber balls, soft to the eye.
  • Fibers flatten when touched — handle by the matrix.
  • Often with green apophyllite or quartz.

Often confused with

Where it's found

  • Pune, India
  • Greenland

Uses

Collector specimens.

Rock tumbling

Not suitable for tumbling.

Did you know?

It's named after German naturalist Lorenz Oken.

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