Astrophyllite - Russia (10.445 pounds)
Astrophyllite - Russia (10.445 pounds)
Location: Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Size: varies but consists of 11 pieces. 0.6 to 2.49 pound pieces
This lot is all of the star variety with the Long wave fluorescence. This is your best bet to get what we have at a discount over the per item pieces due to saving time listing out each piece individually. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS Just the star variety with the fluorescence. The picture is just a stock picture of what this lot looks like.
Weight: 10.445 pound lot
Astrophyllite is a very rare, brown to golden-yellow hydrous potassium iron titanium silicate mineral.
Astrophyllite typically forms as bladed, radiating aggregates. It is this radiating habit that gives astrophyllite its name which came from the Greek words astron meaning star and phyllon meaning leaf.
Astrophyllite is found in a few scarce, remote localities in unusual igneous rocks and is often associated with feldspar, mica, titanite, zircon, nepheline, and aegirine.