Clear Quartz Cluster with Brookite from Pakistan
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Clear quartz cluster with brookite crystals. The largest brookite is a fragment and smaller crystals are tucked between quartz crystals on one end.
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 105 x 48 x 40 mm and 130 grams.
