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Aegirine Felspar & Smoky Quartz

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Aegirine Felspar & Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.8 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm
Description

A large striated crystal of aegirine partially surrounded with an intergrown mix of aegirine, feldspar and smoky quartz crystals. Within the crevices between these crystals are pale green hairlike crystals of aegirine as a second generation.Careful inspection reveals a number of tiny white to buff and slightlyglassy crystals and crystal sections, possibly of xenotime-(y). These are not fluorescent.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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