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Aegirine

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Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Bratthagen Quarries, Lågendalen, Hedrum, Larvik, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.9 × 3.3 cm
Description

Several nice sprays with numerous black aegirine crystals are embedded in white microcline. A nice specimen from this famous road cut which is protected since 1984. Collected in 1976.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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