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Aegirine With Titanite & Clinozoisite

Aegirine With Titanite & Clinozoisite

Aegirine is a sodium-iron pyroxene known for its deep green to black, slender prismatic crystals.

Titanite is a calcium titanium nesosilicate known for wedge-shaped (sphenoid) crystals and high dispersion that can mimic diamond fire.

Clinozoisite is a calcium-aluminum silicate, closely related to epidote but lacking significant Fe²⁺, giving it lighter colors.

This combination—Aegirine + Titanite + Clinozoisite—suggests a Metasomatically Altered, Alkaline, or Calc-Silicate Environment, often where hot fluids introduce sodium, titanium, and aluminum. Pre-existing mafic minerals (like hornblende or augite) alter to aegirine, titanite grows as a stable accessory mineral whenever calcium + titanium + silica coexist, and clinozoisite forms during metamorphism of plagioclase feldspar or calcic rocks.

Specimens typically show jet-black aegirine blades forming the main structure, honey-brown titanite crystals perched on aegirine, and pale green clinozoisite mats or crystals filling pockets or forming coatings.

The color contrast and crystal definition make these excellent reference specimens.

Locality

Packistan

Aegirine With Titanite & Clinozoisite

Streak

Hardness

Formula

Habit

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