Chlorite Included Quartz Cluster with Brookite
$95.00
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.
