Magnetite

Item Description

Typically the Magnetite specimens from this locality are closely grown together, but this piece has a bit of isolation between the crystals. The piece has excellent quality, good size, razor sharp, metallic, lustrous, "Alpine-type" octahedra with cream colored Feldspar on matrix. The largest Magnetite crystal measures 8 mm across, which is good size for the locality. This is one of the better quality specimens of this material that I've seen from this locality, and most crystals are undamaged. Keep in mind, that there are no other localities producing Magnetites of this quality today, and there are few localities in the world that have ever produced Magnetite like this. Though this species is well known to collectors, it is remarkably difficult to obtain such well crystallized, highly displayable specimens as this one.