Magnetite

Description

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

Museum reference

G.1995.53.1

Collection

Natural Sciences

Object name

Magnetite

Collection place(s)

Nuristan, Afghanistan, South Asia

Associations

Garnet, undifferentiated
Clinochlore
Epidote

Exhibitions

• Restless Earth (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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