Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Axinite-(Fe)

Views:
Watches:
CR593606

Axinite-(Fe)

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Khaplu, Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.8 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.70cm
Description

Beautiful cluster of perfect terminated, red-brown axinite crystals from Pakistan.

Collected in 1990

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Axinite-(Fe)

Formula: 
Ca2Fe2+Al2BSi4O15OH
Strunz: 
9.BD.20
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...