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Melanite With Aegirine

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Melanite With Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Zagi Mountain, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 6.5 × 3 cm
Description

A very unusal specimen from the locality, shap well terminated melanite crystals with minor argirine hosts to matrix, nice bright specimen inperson.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Melanite

Variety Of: 

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Black

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

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