Ludwigite | 171 Grams | Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County | Utah, USA Violet manganoan vesuvianite This is a great fragment

This is a great fragment of the NWA 1459  meteorite which is classified as a stone achondrite

Phantom quartz is a variety of quartz

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 46

Product Type: Sunstone

Dimensions: 67x58x33 mm / 2

Ludwigite | 171 Grams | Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County | Utah, USA Violet manganoan vesuvianite This is a great fragmentNamed for Ernst Ludwig, an Austrian Professor of Chemistry at the University of Vienna in Austria who was the first to analyze the type material. Ludwigite is a somewhat uncommon, but widespread mineral that can be found in Romania, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, Russia, Iran, the United States, Canada, and North Korea, among others. Typically, Ludwigite occurs in magnesian iron skarn and in contact metamorphic deposits. It is likely that Ludwigite is