Titanite — specimen 0452, photo © NMNHS

Titanite — specimen 0452

Origin

East Africa

Madagascar

Data

Weight: 0.31 ct; size: 3.98 | 3.95 | 2.72 mm; shape: octagon; colour: medium greenish yellow; very slightly greyish; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Petal’ by Glenn & Martha Vargas, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

Other specimens

More information from ‘Classification’

Titanite

Also known as sphene; a common accessory mineral in intermediate and felsic rocks, pegmatites, and alpine veins; in gneisses, schists, and some skarns (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).