Ludwigite | 171 Grams | Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County | Utah, USA Violet manganoan vesuvianite Origin: Mined in Peru

Origin: Mined in Peru

Dimensions: 67x58x33 mm / 2

This gorgeous slice displays very well with a mass of 59x40x7 mm

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 46

Ludwigite | 171 Grams | Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County | Utah, USA Violet manganoan vesuvianite Origin: Mined in PeruNamed for Ernst Ludwig, an Austrian Professor of Chemistry at the University of Vienna in Austria who was the first to analyze the type material. Ludwigite is a somewhat uncommon, but widespread mineral that can be found in Romania, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, Russia, Iran, the United States, Canada, and North Korea, among others. Typically, Ludwigite occurs in magnesian iron skarn and in contact metamorphic deposits. It is likely that Ludwigite is