#aegirine

[lillianite]

Aegirine – Pakistan

[vugnasmineralblog]

Analcime Siderite Brookite & Aegirine | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada

[overthemoonminerals]

Aegirine, Feldspar, and Smoky Quart from Mount Malosa in Zomba, Malawi

[letstalkrocks]

Today’s Specimen: Aegirine

Aegirine is a dark green to brown sodium iron silicate mineral, and is part of the clinopyroxine inosilicate group. It is often found within alkalic igneous rocks or pegmatites in the Northern hemisphere (Canada, Norway, Russia, and the USA, to name a few), as well as Nigeria. It has an approximate hardness of 5.0-6.0 on the Mohs scale. Aegirine is occasionally used as a faceting gemstone. Fun fact: Aegirine was named after the Norse god of the sea, Ægir. It is also referred to as acmite, a Greek name synonymous to “edged/pointed stone” in reference to the typical pointed formation of these minerals.

More about aegirine here.

Stay tuned for another rock talk!

[wouldyourfavepaychildsupport]

To note, Aegirine is the dark colored mineral, the light colored inclusions are Feldspar.

Would Aegirine pay Child Support?

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Voting ended onJan 10

[saline-coelacanth]

I wanted to update my designs for Halite, Mica and Star's fusions, so here they are! I also changed Siam to Brookite and Cacoxenite to Parisite.

Some of the designs didn't change too much, I just changed some minor things, but I still wanted to make them

[mineralsandsomerocks]

Serandite with Nenadkevichite and Aegirine on Analcime matrix

Locality: Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

[beeapartments]

Messing with UV photography, spouse helped with the setup but definitely running into some challenges (namely that dust is almost impossible to totally remove, UV beam is a little small for some specimens). It is cool to get photos of it more successfully though. Here's a few examples with only a bit of editing in the camera raw settings so far: