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Augite

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Description
Locality: 
Habach Valley, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
9.00gr
Description

Very lustrous thumbnail featuring deep green augite crystals cover a good portion of this matrix specimen. Mostly well terminated, quite sharp and textbook crystals. Associated, some white titanite and occasionally some elongated, gemmy olive green epidote crystals.

In very good conditions, 20+ years old material.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Augite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe2+,Al,Fe3+,Ti)[(Si,Al)2O6]
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0

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