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Ilmenite With Aegirine

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Ilmenite With Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Thor Ghar, Zagi Mountain, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.9 × 1 cm
Description

An interesting example of  well doubly terminated ilmenite incombination with well terminated aegirine crystal embedded in.

There is no damage except natural etching.

A really good unusual specimen from famed Zagi mountain.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ilmenite

Formula: 
Fe2+TiO3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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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