Baddeleyite (rare fine twinned crystal) Sweet Home Specimen# CO712B203

Specimen# CO712B203

The piece features not one

and the faces on the Magnetite crystals are rather smooth and shiny with good isolation between the crystals

Collected in 2007

It should be noted that the tip of the Quartz crystal is actually purple Amethyst(

Baddeleyite (rare fine twinned crystal) Sweet Home Specimen# CO712B203Baddeleyite is a fairly rare zirconium oxide species that dates back to 1892 when it was named after the British geologist, Joseph Baddeley. While working as the superintendent of a railroad project in Rakwana, Sri Lanka in the 1890s, Baddeley found an unusual mineral and sent samples back to London for analysis. According to mindat. org, "This led to the discovery of Geikielite. Baddeley then sent more samples of that mineral, but one of them was