SWJ0060 - Top Rare Kunzite (Spodumene) Rough Specimen from Nigeria Homalopteon 73g of this rare type
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
73g of this rare type of Carbonaceous Chondrite CV3
Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Taza NWA 859
Chlupac 1977 (trilobite)
58g Witnessed Meteorite
• Ordovician of Antarctica (1 collection)
SWJ0060 - Top Rare Kunzite (Spodumene) Rough Specimen from Nigeria Homalopteon 73g of this rare typeThis is a beautiful and exceedingly rare unusual, 38mm wide rough pink Kunzite from Nigeria. Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate, LiAl(SiO3)2, and is a source of lithium. It occurs as colorless to yellowish, purplish, or lilac kunzite (see below), yellowish green or emerald green hiddenite, prismatic crystals, often of great size. Single crystals of 14. 3 m (47 ft) in size are reported from the Black Hills of