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2" Charoite Sphere
This polished slab of the Seymchan pallasite meteorite contains olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix
Weight: 74
Diameter: 43 mm
usually fracturing into rhombohedral shapes
2" Russian Charoite Sphere with Stand DM878 youngite 2" Charoite SphereCharoite Sphere Approx. Diameter: 2 inches Approx. Weight: 173 grams Includes wood sphere stand See last photo for fluorescence under a long wave UV light! Charoite is a stunningly beautiful and very rare silicate mineral. It is named for the Chara River in the Sakha Republic, Siberia, Russia and was first described in 1978. It is thought to have been discovered in the 1940's, but was not widely known until the 1970's partly because it has an