Beautiful red-brown very thin Brookite crystals with striated faces to 2cm with colorless Quartz crystals. Although Brookite occurs around the world these crystals are very nice and quite large.
Buranga pegmatite, Gatumba district, Western Province, Rawanda
Type Locality
Chemical Formula: (Na,Ca)2(Fe++,Mg)2Al10(PO4)8(OH,O)12•4(H2O)
Size: Miniature
Blue crystal grains in Augelite matrix. Extremely rare phosphate found in one pegmatite worldwide. This mineral was originally described in 1965 by Bertossa from the Buranga pegmatite, which hosts three other type minerals - all phosphates.