Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Smoky Quartz On Aegirine

Views:
Watches:
CR15379

Smoky Quartz On Aegirine

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 6.8 × 2.3 cm
Description

A fantastic specimen of a double terminated group of smokey quartz crystals sitting on a double terminated black green aegirine crystal.

Beautiful

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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