Description: Aegirine
section: 5 x 5 cm
(entire piece: 13,5 x 9 x 3,5 cm - visible in Spanish FMF)
Being thin needles the green colour is clearly perceived, sometime Aegirine looks black – but strike color will always be green.
This is the typical pyroxene of many different kind of alkaline rocks.
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