Asteroite is a variety of the mineral augite. For information about augite please click the article tab at the top of the page, or click -here-.

Asteroite is a stellate radiating iron-rich variety of Augite. Asteroite was first originally described from a location in Nordmark, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden.

The mineral asteroite can be translated into the following select languages:

Arabic		Bulgarian		Chinese (Sim)
Croatian		Czech		Danish
Dutch		Esperanto		Estonian
Finnish		French		German	Asteroit
Greek		Hebrew		Hungarian
Italian		Japanese		Korean
Latin		Lithuanian		Norwegian
Persian		Polish		Portuguese
Romanian		Russian		Slovak
Spanish	Asteroita	Swedish		Tagalog
Turkish		Ukrainian		Vietnamese

Asteroite has only been found in two places in the world. The map below shows major documented concentrations of asteroite:

Geographical Data	Mindat.org. Retrieved on 2012-04-27
July 30, 2012	The last time this page was updated
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