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Smoky Quartz & Aegirine

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Smoky Quartz & Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm
Description

A dark, terminated aegirine crystal (to 4.7cm) inter-grown with a large double-terminated, quartz crystal (to 6.7cm) with smoky coloured terminations. The aegirine crystal has either broken and repaired itself or a secondary crystal has grown on-top of the primary crystal. C

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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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