Miserite

Origin: Hodza, Achkan, Kyrgyzstan

Sample size: 4.9 x 3.9 cm specimen containing silky crystalline inclusions of maroon colored miserite (top), 4.0 x 3.5 cm (bottom)

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Pink fibrous in quartz and plagioclase

Origin: Glaciermorene Dara- i-Pioz, Tien Schan Mts., Tajikistan

Sample size: 2 x 3 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Diederik Visser

Pink fibrous crystals to 3 mm embedded in matrix

Origin: Dar-Pioz Massif, Tien-Shan, Tajikistan

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Tom Loomis

Purplish mass of miserite intermixed with whitish massive wollastonite.

Origin: Union Carbide Vanadium Mine, Wilson Springs, Arkansas, U.S.A.

Sample size: 9.8 x 6.6 x 2.2 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Dan Weinrich

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