3" Kammererite Crystals on Matrix - Pembe Gule Mine, Turkey

Kammererite Crystals on Matrix - Pembe Gule Mine, Turkey #175537

This is a gorgeous cluster of magenta colored kammererite crystals on matrix, collected from the Pembe Gule Mine in Turkey. The matrix is almost entirely encrusted a druze of kammererite crystals.

Kammererite is a lustrous mineral that is typically rose-red to magenta in color. The chemical composition of this mineral is Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8. It was named in 1841 by Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld in honor of German geologist and pharmacist August Alexander Kämmerer.

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