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Zircon With Aegirine

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Zircon With Aegirine

Ex E. Lehrrieder, Fürth, Germany

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Description
Locality: 
Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 8.5 × 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Weight: 
263.00gr
Description

Razor sharp brown, bipyramidal crystals of zircon are scattered all over the albite matrix, accompanied by greenish needles of aegirine.

From the famous Kola peninsula alkaline pegmatites. Material from these localities is increasingly hard to get nowadays.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

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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