Chlorite Included Quartz Cluster with Brookite


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Description

Orange brookite crystal nestled in a chlorite included quartz cluster. There are fragments of other brookite crystals.

Brookite was named in 1825 in honor of Henry James Brooke, a wealthy textile manufacturer and amateur English crystallographer and mineralogist. He was author of “A Familiar Introduction to Crystallography” and co-author of “Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy” (1852).

Brookite is titanium dioxide (TiO2). It has orange-brown to black transparent to translucent bladed crystals with longitudinal striations.

This piece is 70 x 40 x 35 mm and 100 grams.

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