Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Perovskite

Views:
Watches:
SKY868440

Perovskite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Badloch Quarry, Schelingen, Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Black cubic crystals of the titanium mineral perovskite from Germany.

Original label states koppite (=calciopyrochlore)  but I couldn't locate it in the specimen.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Perovskite

Formula: 
CaTiO3
Strunz: 
4.CC.30
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Akhmatovskaya Kop' (Achmatovsk Mine), Nazyamskie Mts, Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps