Baddeleyite (rare)

Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Thumbnail, 1.1 x 0.6 x 0.4 cm
Start Time: 03/31/2011 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/07/2011 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Baddeleyite is a fairly rare Zirconium Oxide that is not typically found is well-defined crystals that are larger than micros. In recent years, some of the largest Baddeleyite crystals have been coming out of the Mogok region of Burma. This specimen is a very hard to find, sharp, well-formed, prismatic, dark brown color prismatic crystal of Baddeleyite from a discovery in 2009. One of the very few Baddeleyite crystals I have seen from Burma, and this is certainly a great opportunity to obtain a good specimen of a hard to find species.

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