Brookite Crystals with Clear Quartz from Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
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Brookite crystals nestled within quartz crystals from Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan.
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 45 x 25 x 15 mm and 15 grams.
