Magnetite

Magnetite - dark steel-grey metallic prismatic crystals - associated with garnet, clinochlore and possibly epidote - from Nuristan, Afghanistan.

Magnetite

Magnetite, fine dark grey prismatic crystals on matrix, from Binntal, Canton Valais, Switzerland.

Magnetite

Magnetite - dark grey-black metallic, massive - probably associated with cuspidine, montcellite and diopside - see also G.2011.12.1, a slice taken from this specimen - from Camas Malag, Loch Slapin, Skye, Inverness-shire.

Magnetite pseudomorphous after pyrite

Very dark red to brown crystals of magnetite partially pseudomorphous after pyrite with garnet. Erins (Errins), 6km north of Tarbet, Kintyre, Argyll.