| Mineral | AXINITE |
| Chemistry | Ca2(Mn, Fe, Mg)Al2(BO3OH)(SiO3)4, Calcium Manganese Iron Magnesium Aluminum Borosilicate Hydroxide |
| Class | Silicates |
| Uses | Only as a mineral specimen |
| Color | commonly a lilac brown but also Yellow , Yellow -orange, gray, pale blue and even black . |
| Luster | vitreous. |
| Transparency | crystals are transparent to translucent. |
| CrystalSystem | triclinic; bar 1 |
| CrystalHabits | include flattened wedge shaped crystals, often with a spatula or knife-like shaped edge.Also as granular and as parallel bladed aggregates. |
| Cleavage | good in one direction. |
| Fracture | good in one direction. |
| Hardness | 6 - 7.5 |
| SpecificGravity | approximately 3.0 - 3.4 (slightly above average for transparent minerals) |
| Streak | white. |
| AssociatedMinerals | diopside, andradite, quartz, calcite, epidote, scheelite and prehnite. |
| Characteristics | crystals are heavily striated on some faces and manganese rich axinites have been known to be fluorescent red. |
| Occurences | include Madera Co., California and Franklin, New Jersey, USA; Baja California, Mexico; Bahia, Brazil; Switzerland; Obira, Japan; Cornwall, England and France. |
| Indicators | crystal habit, hardness, color and striations. |
| Composition | Calcium Manganese Iron Magnesium Aluminum Borosilicate Hydroxide |
| DensityNote | slightly above average for transparent minerals |
