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Elbaite On Cleavelandite

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Elbaite On Cleavelandite

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Description
Locality: 
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 7 × 4.4 cm
Weight: 
447.00gr
Description

Colorful specimen with watermelon-tourmaline and blue cap tourmaline crystals on white cleavelandite. Several crystals damaged, a few blue-capped and green crystal tips undamaged.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Elbaite

Formula: 
Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fonte del Prete, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

Cleavelandite

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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