Baddeleyite

Greenish acicular crystal of baddeleyite with colourless albite
Origin: Casa Collina, Pitigliano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
Picture size: 1.2 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Origin: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm with several 1 mm euhedral nearly black crystals associated with forsterite (light green) and white calcite
 
  
Origin: Brazil
Sample size: 11 x 9 x 3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Single crystal specimen of very rare baddeleyite pseudomorph after kimzeyite
Origin: Perovskite Hill, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, U.S.A.
Sample size: 0.9 x 1.0 cm
 
  
 
  
Origin: Palabora Open Pit, Phalaborwa, Transvaal, South Africa
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.3 cm specimen hosting a few crystals of baddeleyite to 1 cm in length (top), 5.2 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm specimen hosting a 1.3 cm crystal of baddeleyite
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Minerals Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

1 cm long black baddeleyite crystal in forsterite-apatite matrix
Origin: Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia
Sample size: 2 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

     
Origin: Phalaborwa, E. Transvaal, Africa
Ex. M. Dodge collection
Sample size: 2.5 x 2.2 x 1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Origin: Pocas de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 35 x 23 x 19 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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