Sapphirine
Sapphirine
Sapphirine

Sapphirine

€95,00
SKU: A909
Nawatara, Amboasary Sud District, Anosy, Madagascar
A thicker sapphirine crystal almost completely covered with matrix. Anyone with time, skill, and the appropriate tools can create an attractive sapphirine specimen themselves for relatively little money.
3.8 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm
60.6 g

Sapphirine is a magnesium-aluminium silicate and is therefore not related to sapphire/corundum. The name was chosen in 1790 by the discoverer of the mineral because of its blue color and hexagonal crystals. Sapphirine is quite hard, brittle (Mohs=7.5) and has a monoclinic crystal structure. In addition to blue tones, greenish or gray/black color nuances also occur.