Gahnite Mineral Gallery

Gahnite Minerals

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Gahnite: ZnAl2O4

Comments: Deep blue octahedral crystals of gahnite in quartz.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

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Gahnite: ZnAl2O4

Comments: Optical micrograph of gahnite (blue) + Na-Ca-Li mica pseudomorph after staurolite in calcite matrix pigmented with brownish Fe-(hydr)oxide. (AmMin, 88:794).
Location: Diaspore-bearing metabauxite from East Samos (Greece). Scale: See Image.
© American Mineralogist

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