Description
Specimen with several crystals of red zircon, automorphic, in a gangue of white calcite.
One of the zircon crystals measures 1.2 cm long.
Historical specimen from the De Chalendar collection, a family of industrialists who built up a mineralogical collection, focusing on iron, manganese, and other ores, in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Minerals from the Andilamena deposit in Madagascar, of which here is a video below:
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