Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Kyanite

Views:
Watches:
PCZ165053

Kyanite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Minas Novas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 2.5 × 0.6 cm
Description

Here we have attractive sprays of rare black kyanite, rather than the common blue type. Sharp reflective crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kyanite

Formula: 
Al2(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AF.15
Crystal System: 
Triclinic Forms long bladed crystals.
Hardness: 
5.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Peter Crozier Minerals