Aegirine

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

Aggregate of mm-sized aegirine crystals, no matrix

Origin: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq, Greenland, Denmark

Sample size: 2.5 x 4 cm

 

Aggregate of fanning green aegirine crystals with arfvedsonite

Origin: Karra, Eriksfjord, Ilimaussaq, Greenland, Denmark

Sample size: 3 x 3.5 cm

 

  

Sample from the Proterozoic Stettin pluton with cm sized aegirine crystals and smaller fanning aggregates of aegirine in finegrained syenite matrix along a contact with coarsegrained aegirine-nephelinite
Origin: Dehnel's Pit, Stettin Pluton, Wausau Complex, Marathon Co., Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Sample size: ca. 6 x 7.5 x 8 cm

 

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Ex. Giorgio Spiga collection

  

Aegirine on orthoclase, ex. Alessandro Genazzani collection

  

  

Aegirine with orthoclase, ex. Mark Wrigley collection

Origin: Mt. Malosa, Malawi

Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm (top/2nd row), 7 x 7 x 6 cm (3rd/4th row), 5.3 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm (5th/bottom row)

 

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