Titanite

  
  
Origin: Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 5 x 3.3 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Titanite on adularia
Origin: Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 4.7 x 4.6 x 2.2 cm
 
  
Origin: Androy, Tulear Province, Madagascar
Sample size: 3.4 x 1.9 x 0.5 cm
 
  
Quartz crystals with bright green crystals of titanite and frosty calcite points.
Origin: Arondu, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan
Sample size: 10.6 x 9.7 x 3.9 cm
 
  
Titanite with orthoclase
Origin: Tormiq, Skardu, Gilgit, Pakistan
Sample size: 2.1 x 2 x 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Origin: Traigh Doire Dhubhaig (beach), Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, UK
Sample size: 0.7 mm yellowish crystal of titanite suspended on acicular crystals of ?
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Eas a Bradain, Luib, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, North West Highlands, Scotland, UK
Sample size: 0.6 mm crystal of pale buff titanite, with fluorite on biotite (top), 0.7 mm crystal (bottom left), 0.75 mm grey-brown titanite crystal on a black prismatic crystal of ferrohornblende (bottom right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
This specimen of kämmererite hosts several crystals of deep chrome green sphene. The largest crystal is 1.3 cm across.
Origin: Sarani, Ural Mountains, Russia
Sample size: 7.7 x 6 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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