Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Danburite

Views:
Watches:
CR584011

Danburite

With Antique Label

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Scópi, Val Medel, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.4 × 1.2 cm
Description

Beautiful and very old danburite specimen with sharp prisms up 1 cm coated with chlorite on both sides of this specimen.

Extremely rare

Ex Franz Bauer collection, Germany

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Danburite

Formula: 
CaB2Si2O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.65
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
7.0 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA