Zirconolite

  
Origin: near Sandefjord, Norway
Eaton Collection
Sample size: 3 x 2 cm x 5 mm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Brown lath-shaped crystals in cavity
Tiny tabular brown crystals with rose zircon
Origin: Bellerberg, Eifel, Germany
Sample size: thumbnail (top), micromount (bottom)
 
Brown lathshaped crystals in cavity
Origin: In den Dellen, Mendig, Laacher See, Eifel, Germany
Sample size: thumbnail
 
Black submetallic crystal fragments in pegmatite
Origin: Agnes, Stavern, Norway
Sample size: 4 x 6 cm
 
Dark brown to black platy elongated and/or rhombic zirconolite-3O crystals on sanidine
Origin: Castellaccio di Petrignano near Vetrella, Lazio,Viterbo, Italy
Sample size: 4 x 4 cm
 
Dark brown platy hexagonal zirconolite-3T crystals on sanidine
Origin: Castellaccio di Petrignano near Vetrella, Lazio,Viterbo, Italy
Sample size: 3 x 4 cm
 
Brown zirconolite-(3O) needles in matrix
Origin: In den Dellen, Mendig, Laacher See, Eifel, Germany
Sample size:  micromount

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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