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Strong. \u003Ci>Mineralogical Magazine\u003C\u002Fi>,  38 (294) 251-252 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1180\u002Fminmag.1971.038.294.16'>doi:10.1180\u002Fminmag.1971.038.294.16\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Frruff.info\u002Fdoclib\u002FMinMag\u002FVolume_38\u002F38-294-251.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1180\u002Fminmag.1971.038.294.16",{"id":304,"year":305,"html":306,"doi":11},526917,1977,"Robinson, Peter, Ross, Malcolm, Nord, Gordon L., Smyth, Joseph R., Jaffe, Howard W. (1977) Exsolution lamellae in augite and pigeonite: fossil indicators of lattice parameters at high temperature and pressure. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  62 (9-10) 857-873 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='http:\u002F\u002Fwww.minsocam.org\u002Fammin\u002FAM62\u002FAM62_857.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":308,"year":309,"html":310,"doi":11},16101681,1981,"Phillips, W.R., Griffin, D.T. (1981) Optical Mineralogy: 196-198.",{"id":312,"year":313,"html":314,"doi":11},528538,1988,"Morimoto, N., Fabries, J., Ferguson, A.K., Ginzburg, I.V., Ross, M., Seifert, F.A., Zussman, J., Aoki, K., Gottardi, G. (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  73 (9-10). 1123-1133 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='http:\u002F\u002Fwww.minsocam.org\u002Fammin\u002FAM73\u002FAM73_1123.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":316,"year":317,"html":318,"doi":11},16101683,1997,"Deer, W.A., Howie, R.A., Zussman, J. (1997) Rock-Forming Minerals. Volume 2A, Geological Society of London, 764pp., 294-398.",{"id":320,"year":321,"html":322,"doi":11},16963042,2001,"(2001) Augite. \u003Ci>Handbook of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>. Mineralogical Society of America \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fwww.handbookofmineralogy.org\u002Fpdfs\u002Faugite.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",[324,331,341,350,354,364,371,376,385,392,398,407,416,423,432,442,449,456,465,474,483,491,499,505,513,520,529,538,545,555,563,571,578,585,593,596,601,607,616],{"id":325,"source_url":326,"license_code":327,"credit_html":328,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":329,"original_height":330},29176,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F115068","CC BY 4.0","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F115068\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",1000,666,{"id":332,"source_url":333,"license_code":334,"credit_html":335,"title":336,"description":337,"author":338,"original_width":339,"original_height":340},34286,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=120358","CC BY-SA 3.0","No machine-readable author provided. Siim assumed (based on copyright claims)., via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=120358\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Olivine basalt.jpg","\u003Cp>Photographer: \u003Ca href=\"\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUser:Siim\" title=\"User:Siim\">Siim Sepp\u003C\u002Fa>\nDate of the creation: 25th April, 2005.\nDiameter is 14 cm.\nDescription: dark groundmass is basalt, orange is iddingsite (hydrothermally altered olivine) and black phenocrysts are augite (one of pyroxenes).  \n\u003C\u002Fp>\nRock sample is from La Palma, Canary islands and belongs to the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002Fen:University_of_Tartu\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:en:University of Tartu\">University of Tartu\u003C\u002Fa>.","No machine-readable author provided. Siim assumed (based on copyright claims).",600,566,{"id":342,"source_url":343,"license_code":334,"credit_html":344,"title":345,"description":346,"author":347,"original_width":348,"original_height":349},2296,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10135273","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10135273\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite-54563.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTeide\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Teide\">Mount Teide\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTenerife\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Tenerife\">Tenerife\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FProvince_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife\">Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCanary_Islands\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Canary Islands\">Canary Islands\u003C\u002Fa>, Spain (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-9501.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>A sharp, euhedral, complete all-around and pristine, brownish-green augite crystal from Spain, This CLASSIC, old-time piece with low lustre is from Mt. Teide, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Not often seen on the market and in this quality. 4.4 x 3.0 x 2.3 cm\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Robert M. Lavinsky",335,500,{"id":351,"source_url":352,"license_code":327,"credit_html":353,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":329,"original_height":330},29177,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114857","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114857\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",{"id":355,"source_url":356,"license_code":357,"credit_html":358,"title":359,"description":360,"author":361,"original_width":362,"original_height":363},34288,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=1318160","Public domain","Manfred Mader, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=1318160\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augit Grube Clara,Oberwolfach,Schwarzwald,Deutschland.jpg","Augit_Grube Clara,Oberwolfach,Schwarzwald,Deutschland","Manfred Mader",889,726,{"id":365,"source_url":366,"license_code":334,"credit_html":367,"title":368,"description":369,"author":347,"original_width":339,"original_height":370},2297,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10135879","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10135879\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite-60768.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Eifel Mts, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FRhineland-Palatinate\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Rhineland-Palatinate\">Rhineland-Palatinate\u003C\u002Fa>, Germany (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-16010.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>The silicate augite is usually known as a non-descript, microcrystalline rock in gabbros and basalts, but occasionally in a few places in the world (one notable one is the Eifel area of Germany) formed good and sizeable crystals. This is an old specimen out of a German collection, with a well-formed 1.5-cm crystal on matrix. 7.5 x 5.1 x 3.9cm\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",489,{"id":372,"source_url":373,"license_code":327,"credit_html":374,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":375,"original_height":329},29178,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F40997","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F40997\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",865,{"id":377,"source_url":378,"license_code":334,"credit_html":379,"title":380,"description":381,"author":382,"original_width":383,"original_height":384},34289,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=3188204","Aangelo, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=3188204\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite - Monzoni, Trentino, Italia 04.jpg","\u003Cp>{it}Augite - Monzoni, Trentino, Italia\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n{en}Augite - Monzoni, Trentino, Italy","Aangelo",3264,2448,{"id":386,"source_url":387,"license_code":334,"credit_html":388,"title":389,"description":390,"author":347,"original_width":391,"original_height":339},2298,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10138396","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10138396\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite-112545.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Twin Peak, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMillard_County,_Utah\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Millard County, Utah\">Millard County\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUtah\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Utah\">Utah\u003C\u002Fa>, USA (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-38212.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Sharp crystalline augites, a beautiful miniature for a species that is black and seldom crystallizes so nicely! 4.6 x 4 x 2.7 cm\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",562,{"id":393,"source_url":394,"license_code":395,"credit_html":396,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":329,"original_height":397},29179,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F127860","CC BY-SA 4.0","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F127860\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Tartu, Natural History Museum\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",813,{"id":399,"source_url":400,"license_code":357,"credit_html":401,"title":402,"description":403,"author":404,"original_width":405,"original_height":406},34290,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=3933095","Karelj, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=3933095\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augit 1.jpg","Mineral augite, chemical composition:(Ca,Mg,Fe)SiO\u003Csub>3\u003C\u002Fsub>, from collection of \u003Ca href=\"\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCategory:National_Museum_(Prague)\" class=\"mw-disambig\" title=\"Category:National Museum (Prague)\">National Museum\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPrague\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Prague\">Prague\u003C\u002Fa>, originally from \u003Ca href=\"\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCzech_Republic\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Czech Republic\">Czech Republic\u003C\u002Fa>","Karelj",1520,868,{"id":408,"source_url":409,"license_code":395,"credit_html":410,"title":411,"description":412,"author":413,"original_width":414,"original_height":415},34291,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8382800","Piotr Sosnowski, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8382800\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augit.JPG","Augit z andezytu pienińskiego.","Piotr Sosnowski",1261,1262,{"id":417,"source_url":418,"license_code":334,"credit_html":419,"title":420,"description":421,"author":347,"original_width":339,"original_height":422},2301,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10453459","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10453459\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite-mrz282a.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FSkardu_District\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Skardu District\">Skardu District\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBaltistan\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Baltistan\">Baltistan\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FGilgit-Baltistan\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Gilgit-Baltistan\">Northern Areas\u003C\u002Fa>, Pakistan (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-156271.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: miniature, 5 x 3.1 x 1.4 cm\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdt>Augite var. Fassaite\u003C\u002Fdt>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Fassaite is a rare Augite with a low iron content, and the result is a crystal of augite that looks sharp and lustrous like hedenbergite! This is a superb floater, complete all around na dpristine. As elegant as it gets for the species...\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",474,{"id":424,"source_url":425,"license_code":395,"credit_html":426,"title":427,"description":428,"author":429,"original_width":430,"original_height":431},2302,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=12277551","Didier Descouens, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=12277551\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite Rwanda.jpg","Augite\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality : \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMount_Muhabura\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Mount Muhabura\">Muhavura volcano\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FRuhengeri\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Ruhengeri\">Ruhengeri Region\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNorthern_Province,_Rwanda\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Northern Province, Rwanda\"> Northern Province, Rwanda\u003C\u002Fa>, Rwanda\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size : 9x7x5 cm\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Didier Descouens",6048,4032,{"id":433,"source_url":434,"license_code":435,"credit_html":436,"title":437,"description":438,"author":439,"original_width":440,"original_height":441},34293,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11347657","CC BY 3.0","Rock Currier, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11347657\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite - Ross Island, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Ross Island, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Small augite crystals that would go unremarked if they were not from a rather exotic locality. Specimens are from the British Museum of Natural History, Nr. 1930,205 (1975)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Scale at bottom of image is one inch with a rule at one cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Rock Currier",1024,573,{"id":443,"source_url":444,"license_code":435,"credit_html":445,"title":446,"description":447,"author":439,"original_width":440,"original_height":448},34294,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11347842","Rock Currier, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11347842\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite - La Panchita Mine, Mun de La Pe, Oaxaca, Mexico.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: La Panchita Mine, La Panchita, Mun. de La Pe, Oaxaca, Mexico\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Cluster of augite crystals. Specimen is from the collection of Miguel Romero 1980\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Scale at bottom of image is one inch with a rule at one cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",935,{"id":450,"source_url":451,"license_code":435,"credit_html":452,"title":453,"description":454,"author":439,"original_width":455,"original_height":440},34297,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11353635","Rock Currier, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11353635\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite - Diana Township, Lewis Co, New York, USA.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Diana, Diana Township, Lewis County, New York, USA\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Augite crystals on matrix. Specimen is from the Collection of Neal Yedlan 1972\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Scale at bottom of image is one inch with a rule at one cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",723,{"id":457,"source_url":458,"license_code":395,"credit_html":459,"title":460,"description":461,"author":462,"original_width":463,"original_height":464},34299,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=83013642","Mai Seppel, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=83013642\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Estonian Museum of Natural History Specimen No 202344 photo (g27 g27-700 1 jpg).jpg","\"augiit\". More info \u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F65330\">about this file\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Fspecimen\u002F202344\">about this specimen\u003C\u002Fa> at \u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002F\">geocollections.info\u003C\u002Fa>","Mai Seppel",3169,2480,{"id":466,"source_url":467,"license_code":395,"credit_html":468,"title":469,"description":470,"author":471,"original_width":472,"original_height":473},34300,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=113720727","Koreller, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=113720727\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Muséum de Nantes - 219 - Pyroxène augite (Mont-Dore, Puy-de-Dôme, France).jpg","Pyroxène augite, en provenance de Mont-Dore (Puy-de-Dôme, France), au Muséum de Nantes","Koreller",3420,2320,{"id":475,"source_url":476,"license_code":395,"credit_html":477,"title":478,"description":479,"author":480,"original_width":481,"original_height":482},34302,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=126720115","Ringwoodit, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=126720115\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Obidian Entglasung Hellfeld.jpg","Beginnende Devitrifikation um einen Xenokristall (Augit) in Obsidian von Vulcano, Italien. Dünnschliff, Hellfeld.","Ringwoodit",1929,1447,{"id":484,"source_url":485,"license_code":334,"credit_html":486,"title":487,"description":488,"author":347,"original_width":489,"original_height":490},2295,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10127200","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10127200\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Leucite-Augite-39143.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FLeucite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Leucite\">Leucite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FRoccamonfina\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Roccamonfina\">Roccamonfina\u003C\u002Fa>, Roccamonfina Volcanic Complex, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FProvince_of_Caserta\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Province of Caserta\">Caserta Province\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCampania\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Campania\">Campania\u003C\u002Fa>, Italy (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-4544.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Leucite is a relatively rare feldspathoid, and this is a classic for the species. The trapezohedral crystal is sharp, the color is good, and the luster very good. And the coup de grace is an Augite crystal embedded in the Leucite crytal that for all the world will remind you of Snoopy. Too cool. 2.5 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",359,400,{"id":492,"source_url":493,"license_code":334,"credit_html":494,"title":495,"description":496,"author":347,"original_width":497,"original_height":498},2299,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10160775","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10160775\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Vesuvianite-Augite-211541.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FVesuvianite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Vesuvianite\">Vesuvianite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Vedretta di Solda, Ortles-Cevedale Group, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FProvince_of_Bolzano-Bozen\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Province of Bolzano-Bozen\">Bolzano Province (South Tyrol)\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTrentino-Alto_Adige\u002FS%C3%BCdtirol\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Trentino-Alto Adige\u002FSüdtirol\">Trentino-Alto Adige\u003C\u002Fa>, Italy (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-123257.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 6.7 x 6.0 x 5.2 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Gemmy and lustrous, brown vesuvianite crystals to 6 mm richly and aesthetically line a very 3-dimensional, vuggy matrix, which are very nicely complimented by contrasting, green augite crystals. This fine specimen is from the less well-known Italian locality of Vedretta di Solda, in the South Tyrol Mountains. Ex. Rolf Wein Collection, a noted Alpine specialist, and collected in 1979.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",700,670,{"id":500,"source_url":501,"license_code":334,"credit_html":502,"title":503,"description":496,"author":347,"original_width":490,"original_height":504},2300,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10160776","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10160776\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Vesuvianite-Augite-211543.jpg",399,{"id":506,"source_url":507,"license_code":435,"credit_html":508,"title":509,"description":510,"author":511,"original_width":512,"original_height":440},34295,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11347907","Kelly Nash, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11347907\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite - Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co, Arkansas, USA.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa> (Size: 4.5 cm)\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>collected by Clyde Hardin in 1973, from the “Moore House, North Cove Creek” locality, and from his personal collection. Not a \"killer\" specimen, but a fairly unusual mineral and large crystal for the Cove. John Fender specimen\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Kelly Nash",755,{"id":514,"source_url":515,"license_code":435,"credit_html":516,"title":517,"description":518,"author":439,"original_width":519,"original_height":440},34296,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11348002","Rock Currier, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=11348002\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite, Quartz - Diana Township, Lewis Co, New York, USA.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQuartz\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Quartz\">Quartz\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Diana, Diana Township, Lewis County, New York, USA\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Specimen is from the Franckfort Collection at Wesleyan University No. 3578 (1972), Middletown, Connecticut, USA. Specimen has been uncleaned for 100 years.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Scale at bottom of image is one inch with a rule at one cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",599,{"id":521,"source_url":522,"license_code":334,"credit_html":523,"title":524,"description":525,"author":526,"original_width":527,"original_height":528},34298,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=22300677","Siim Sepp (Sandatlas), via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=22300677\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","00031 6 cm grossular calcite augite skarn.jpg","Skarn from Mount Monzoni, Northern Italy. Skarn is a metamorphic rock type. It forms when magmatic liquids react with carbonate rocks (limestone, marble). This skarn is composed of calcite (blue), pyroxene augite (green), and garnet grossular (orange). The width of the view is 6 cm. Additional information from the source: \u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.sandatlas.org\u002F2012\u002F03\u002Fwhat-happens-when-magma-attacks-limestone\u002F\">[2]\u003C\u002Fa>","Siim Sepp (Sandatlas)",3347,2848,{"id":530,"source_url":531,"license_code":327,"credit_html":532,"title":533,"description":534,"author":535,"original_width":536,"original_height":537},265,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=130423708","Henk Smeets – tomeikminerals.com, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=130423708\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Aegirine-Augite Tomeik.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAegirine-augite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Aegirine-augite\">Aegirine-augite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Field of view: 1 mm\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Locality: In den Dellen Quarry, Mendig, Germany\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Henk Smeets – tomeikminerals.com",1920,1279,{"id":539,"source_url":540,"license_code":334,"credit_html":541,"title":542,"description":543,"author":347,"original_width":544,"original_height":375},2677,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=67715211","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=67715211\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Oxykinoshitalite, Ulvöspinel, Nepheline, Olivine, Augite, Calcite, Apatite, K Feldspar-762193.png",":A very interesting piece under the microscope. Vesicles in this olivine nephelinite contain microcrystals of orange-brown, prismatic to platy oxykinoshitalite associated with nepheline, calcite, and an apatite group mineral. An unassuming specimen in hand sample, but fairly remarkable under modest magnification. Oxykinoshitalite is a rare and complex barium potassium magnesium titanium iron layer silicate and a member of the Mica Group. Ex. Paulo Matioli collection.\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>3.0 x 2.0 x 1.0 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>From: Fernando de Noronha island, Fernando de Noronha archipelago, Pernambuco, Brazil.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",1379,{"id":546,"source_url":547,"license_code":548,"credit_html":549,"title":550,"description":551,"author":552,"original_width":553,"original_height":554},2691,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=163485169","CC0 1.0","Shannon Heinle, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=163485169\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Camptonite (GeoDIL number - 1757).jpg","Camptonites are one variety of a group of intrusive rocks collectively known as lamprophyres that characteristically form dykes. The original camptonite was named from Campton Falls in New Hampshire, USA. It is a dark-colored, medium-grained igneous rock composed of plagioclase feldspar, barkevikite (a sodium-bearing amphibole) and\u002For augite. This sample is about 11 cm.","Shannon Heinle",2512,1938,{"id":556,"source_url":557,"license_code":548,"credit_html":558,"title":559,"description":560,"author":552,"original_width":561,"original_height":562},7165,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=163476664","Shannon Heinle, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=163476664\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Pyroxene (diallage) (GeoDIL number - 407).jpg","Diallage is a name used (uncommonly) for any dark green, brown, gray or bronze pyroxene that has a metallic or brassy luster (schiller). Diallage is typically a variety of augite or diopside, and often forms as a result of weathering and alteration. This sample is about 3.5 cm across.",1560,1404,{"id":564,"source_url":565,"license_code":334,"credit_html":566,"title":567,"description":568,"author":347,"original_width":569,"original_height":570},12570,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10162817","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10162817\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite-225083.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa> (Var.: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FJeffersonite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Jeffersonite\">en:Jeffersonite\u003C\u002Fa>)\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Passaic Pit (Marshall Mine; Passaic Mine), \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FSterling_Hill_Mining_Museum\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Sterling Hill Mining Museum\">Sterling Hill\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FOgdensburg\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Ogdensburg\">Ogdensburg\u003C\u002Fa>, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNew_Jersey\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:New Jersey\">New Jersey\u003C\u002Fa>, USA (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-3961.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 11 x 6.3 x 4.3 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>This specimen is actually quite attractive for this augite varietal that has some aesthetics of geometry to it. It is sharply doubly-terminated, and not cracked and pasty as these tend to get. Jeffersonite is a zincian manganoan variety of augite, a clinopyroxene. Originally described from Passaic Pit (Marshall Mine; Passaic Mine), Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey. Ex. George Elling Collection.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",505,800,{"id":572,"source_url":573,"license_code":334,"credit_html":574,"title":575,"description":576,"author":347,"original_width":577,"original_height":339},12571,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10169932","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10169932\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Augite-264139.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa> (Var.: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FJeffersonite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Jeffersonite\">en:Jeffersonite\u003C\u002Fa>)\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNew_Jersey\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:New Jersey\">New Jersey\u003C\u002Fa>, USA (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-3947.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 3.7 x 3.2 x 2.1 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Jeffersonite is the very rare zincian manganoan variety of augite, a clinopyroxene and was originally described from Franklin. This aesthetic cluster of lightweight, brownish crystals is dominated by the large, sharply terminated crystal, which is, in fact, doubly terminated. Old-time, classic and seldom-seen material. Comes with an expertly handwritten, faded label from an older collection. The collection this came out of was a museum stash dating to prior to World War I.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",571,{"id":579,"source_url":580,"license_code":395,"credit_html":581,"title":582,"description":583,"author":462,"original_width":584,"original_height":464},12573,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=82999786","Mai Seppel, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=82999786\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Estonian Museum of Natural History Specimen No 202342 photo (g27 g27-698 1 jpg).jpg","\"augiit\", \"jeffersoniit\". More info \u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F65365\">about this file\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Fspecimen\u002F202342\">about this specimen\u003C\u002Fa> at \u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002F\">geocollections.info\u003C\u002Fa>",2894,{"id":586,"source_url":587,"license_code":435,"credit_html":588,"title":589,"description":590,"author":591,"original_width":440,"original_height":592},19439,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=15520832","Ralph Bottrill, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=15520832\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Pigeonite, Albite-Anorthite Series, Augite-358246.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPigeonite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Pigeonite\">Pigeonite\u003C\u002Fa>, Albite-Anorthite Series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAugite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Augite\">Augite\u003C\u002Fa> (FOV ~ 4.5 x 3 mm)\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Tipogorree Hills, Tasmania, Australia\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>\u003Ci>Original description:\u003C\u002Fi> A thin section of a dolerite with cross polarised light, showing brighly coloured pyroxenes (augite and pigeonite) and white-grey plagioclase with some fine grained mesostasis.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Ralph Bottrill",760,{"id":128,"source_url":594,"license_code":327,"credit_html":595,"title":125,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":329,"original_height":330},"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F119124","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F119124\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",{"id":597,"source_url":598,"license_code":395,"credit_html":599,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":329,"original_height":600},29965,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F65365","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F65365\" rel=\"noopener\">The Estonian Museum of Natural History\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",856,{"id":602,"source_url":603,"license_code":395,"credit_html":604,"title":605,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":329,"original_height":606},29966,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F128784","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F128784\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Tartu, Natural History Museum\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana","Jeffersonite, pseudomorph after augite",952,{"id":608,"source_url":609,"license_code":395,"credit_html":610,"title":611,"description":612,"author":613,"original_width":614,"original_height":615},38104,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=128073960","Reinhard Kraasch, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=128073960\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Cancrinit mit Aegirin-Augit (RK 2206 P1890094).jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fde.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCancrinit\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"de:Cancrinit\">Cancrinit\u003C\u002Fa> mit \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fde.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAegirin-Augit\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"de:Aegirin-Augit\">Aegirin-Augit\u003C\u002Fa> (auch \"Ägirinaugit\") u.a.m. in Alkali-Pegmatit aus Tvedalen, Norwegen – ausgestellt im \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fde.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMineralogisches_Museum_W%C3%BCrzburg\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"de:Mineralogisches Museum Würzburg\">Mineralogischen Museum Würzburg\u003C\u002Fa>","Reinhard Kraasch",2337,2338,{"id":617,"source_url":618,"license_code":435,"credit_html":619,"title":620,"description":621,"author":622,"original_width":623,"original_height":624},80135,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=20756136","Pelex, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=20756136\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","2278 minette.jpg","Rock sample of minette from the museum in Jáchymov in northwestern Bohemia. Minette is a lamprophyre with prevailing K-feldspars over plagioclase, common biotite and minor hornblende. Augite and olivine may be present.","Pelex",2152,3360,[626,633],{"id":627,"url":628,"label":629,"formula":630,"spacegroup":631,"year":632},1087,"\u002Fcif\u002F1087.cif","Bindi 2003","Ca.61 Fe.13 Mg.43 Mn.01 K.17 Na.05 Al Si1.61 O6","C 1 2\u002Fc 1",2003,{"id":634,"url":635,"label":636,"formula":637,"spacegroup":631,"year":292},1088,"\u002Fcif\u002F1088.cif","Clark 1969","Na.09 Ca.616 Mg.902 Fe.21 Al.342 Ti.02 Si1.82 O6",[639,640,641,642,643,644],"Hedenbergite-Ågirin","Violatit","Violatita","Violatite","Volcanic Shorl","Volcanite (of Delamétherie)",[646,652,656,661,665,669,673,677,681,685,688,692,696,700,704,707,711,714,717,721,724,728,733,737,740,744,747,750,753,757,760,764,768,772,776,780,784,788,793,796,799,803,806,810,813,816,819,822,825,829,832,835,839,842,845,848,851,854],{"lang":647,"names":648},"ar",[649,650,651],"أغويط","أوجيت","اوجيت",{"lang":653,"names":654},"ast",[655],"Auxita",{"lang":657,"names":658},"az",[659,660],"Avgit","Avqit",{"lang":662,"names":663},"be",[664],"Аўгіт",{"lang":666,"names":667},"bg",[668],"Авгит",{"lang":670,"names":671},"ca",[672],"augita",{"lang":674,"names":675},"cs",[676],"augit",{"lang":678,"names":679},"de",[680],"Augit",{"lang":682,"names":683},"eo",[684],"aŭgito",{"lang":686,"names":687},"es",[672],{"lang":689,"names":690},"et",[691],"augiit",{"lang":693,"names":694},"eu",[695],"Augita",{"lang":697,"names":698},"fa",[699],"اوژیت",{"lang":701,"names":702},"fi",[703],"Augiitti",{"lang":705,"names":706},"fr",[7],{"lang":708,"names":709},"he",[710],"אוגיט",{"lang":712,"names":713},"hr",[680],{"lang":715,"names":716},"hu",[676],{"lang":718,"names":719},"hy",[720],"ավգիտ",{"lang":722,"names":723},"id",[680],{"lang":725,"names":726},"it",[727],"augite",{"lang":729,"names":730},"ja",[731,732],"オージャイト","普通輝石",{"lang":734,"names":735},"ka",[736],"ავგიტი",{"lang":738,"names":739},"kk",[668],{"lang":741,"names":742},"kk-arab",[743],"اۆگىيت",{"lang":745,"names":746},"kk-cn",[743],{"lang":748,"names":749},"kk-cyrl",[668],{"lang":751,"names":752},"kk-kz",[668],{"lang":754,"names":755},"kk-latn",[756],"Avgït",{"lang":758,"names":759},"kk-tr",[756],{"lang":761,"names":762},"kn",[763],"ಆಗೈಟ್",{"lang":765,"names":766},"ko",[767],"보통휘석",{"lang":769,"names":770},"lt",[771],"Augitas",{"lang":773,"names":774},"mk",[775],"Аугит",{"lang":777,"names":778},"ml",[7,779],"ആഗൈറ്റ്",{"lang":781,"names":782},"mn",[783],"Аугайт",{"lang":785,"names":786},"nb",[787],"augitt",{"lang":789,"names":790},"nl",[791,792],"augiet","Fassaiet",{"lang":794,"names":795},"nn",[787],{"lang":797,"names":798},"pl",[680],{"lang":800,"names":801},"ru",[802],"авгит",{"lang":804,"names":805},"sh",[680],{"lang":807,"names":808},"sr",[809],"аугит",{"lang":811,"names":812},"sr-ec",[775],{"lang":814,"names":815},"sr-el",[680],{"lang":817,"names":818},"sv",[680],{"lang":820,"names":821},"tg",[668],{"lang":823,"names":824},"tg-latn",[659],{"lang":826,"names":827},"uk",[828],"Авгіт",{"lang":830,"names":831},"uz",[659],{"lang":833,"names":834},"vi",[680],{"lang":836,"names":837},"zh",[838],"普通辉石",{"lang":840,"names":841},"zh-cn",[838],{"lang":843,"names":844},"zh-hans",[838],{"lang":846,"names":847},"zh-hant",[732],{"lang":849,"names":850},"zh-hk",[732],{"lang":852,"names":853},"zh-sg",[838],{"lang":855,"names":856},"zh-tw",[732],"Q192141",{"history":859,"applications":863},{"markdown":860,"model_version":861,"prompt_version":862,"reviewed_at":11},"The name reaches for a flash of light. It comes from the Greek *augḗ* — shine, or luster[1]. The word was chosen for the bright glint that some specimens throw off their cleavage surfaces, the flat planes along which the crystal splits cleanly[1]. The irony is that most augite is anything but bright. Ordinary specimens are a dull dark green, brown, or black; only the occasional crystal earns the name[2].\n\nThe German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner gave augite that name in 1792[3]. Werner was one of the figures who built the early vocabulary of mineralogy. He worked when the field had barely settled on what counted as a distinct mineral. Much of his effort went into sorting minerals into named kinds.\n\nBeyond its naming, augite carries little documented human story. It was never worked as a gemstone, ground for a pigment, or struck into coin, and the record holds no early cultural use of the mineral itself.","claude-opus-4-8","1.7.0",{"markdown":864,"model_version":861,"prompt_version":862,"reviewed_at":11},"Augite is mined for nothing. There is no industrial or economic use for the mineral itself[1] — no metal locked inside it worth smelting, no property that a factory needs. What value it holds is to the people who study how rock forms.\n\nThat value is real. Augite is a clinopyroxene — one of the pyroxene minerals whose crystals are read by geologists the way others read a thermometer. The technique, clinopyroxene thermobarometry, works out the temperature and pressure of the magma at the moment the mineral crystallized[2]. Augite is one of the main clinopyroxenes used this way. It is common as a phenocryst — a crystal that grew early and large in a cooling melt — and easy to identify[3].\\\nThe readings feed wider questions. From the temperature and pressure locked in a crystal, researchers reconstruct how magma crystallized and how some ore deposits formed[2]. The same figures track how rocks were reheated and cooled during metamorphism[2]. They also build models of the deep crust and mantle, which in turn sharpen forecasts of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes[4].\n\nAny commercial worth lies not in augite but in the rock it helps build. It is the dark pyroxene that gives basalt and gabbro their grey-to-black colour[5], and those rocks are quarried in bulk. Hard, tough igneous stone of this kind — commonly called trap rock — makes an excellent source of crushed stone for road base, concrete, and asphalt aggregate[6]. Basalt is also cut into building blocks and cobblestones, and extruded into stone wool for thermal insulation[7]."]