CHAROITE
Specimen chr-14
$ 42.00Dims: 2.62x2.26x0.48" (6.65x5.74x1.21cm)
Wt: 1.63oz (46.2g)
Tchara River, Sacha, Russia
This is a very pretty and colorful specimen of charoite and aegirine, with liberal amounts of quartz and a few crystals of tinaksite as well. The charoite is a light and bright purple, and shows a fibrous structure with chatoyance in a few areas. On the polished side of the specimen, the aegirines appear as opaque black areas, while on the rough side their true form of dense parallel acicular bundles, some showing hints of a radial origin. The golden tinaksite also shows a fibrous structure, but the best part of the specimen is the bright swirls of purple charoite as revealed by a loupe.