Enigmatite (rare) (ex David Burgess Collection)

Item Description

Enigmatite has been known since 1865, and gets its name from the Greek word "aenigma" meaning "riddle", due to the originally uncertain chemical composition of the species. We know now that it is a sodium iron titanium silicate, most famously found at the Khibiny Massif in the Kola Peninsula of Russia. This piece hosts many prismatic crystals of Enigmatite measuring up to 1.8 with a dark brown-black hue frozen into the host rock matrix. A great representation of this classic material from this famous mineral producing region. From the worldwide collection of David Burgess (1951-2016). David was a prolific species collector from Newington, Connecticut, and the namesake for the extremely rare cobalt arsenate species Burgessite, which he discovered.