Pyrochlore

No, this is not cuprite! - EarthWonders Newsletter #7

specimen
Pyrochlore
MIM Museum
Species
Comments
Details
ColorsRed
Origin
Vishnevogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural, Russia
Species
Description
Perfect, truncated, shiny, dark red octahedrons on a rocky matrix with a little calcite and mica.

Origin: Vishnevogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural, Russia