Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Omphacite

Views:
Watches:
FRR765609

Omphacite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Bric Vert, Quincinetto, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.8 × 9.7 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.20cm
Description

Top quality specimen of Omphacite, featuring a wide vug filled with green crystals, well terminated out of the longest one and reach 3.5 cm in length.

The specie is extremely rare and this quality is really among the best that the locality produced!

Found in 1972.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Omphacite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na)(Mg,Al)Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.20
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Eclogite outcrops, Weißenstein, Stammbach, Münchberg Metamorphic complex, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

The item can be returned for whichever reason, provided its original conditions, and within 10 days from its delivery to the Buyer. In the case of returning, the Buyer will be entitled to the refund of the item price; shipping costs will remain at the Buyer's charge in any case.