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Tourmaline Elbaite With Lepidolite

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Tourmaline Elbaite With Lepidolite

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Description
Locality: 
Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 5.5 × 4 cm
Weight: 
112.00gr
Description

Perfect terminated gem. Tourmaline elbaite crystals from famous Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
Great deep green crystals with pale green cap and pink/red zones set in fantastic Lepidolite flower

Tourmaline crystals up to: 4.5cm doubly terminated!

#S-21.8

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

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...

Lepidolite

Synonym Of: 

Mica Group

Formula: 
KLi2Al(Si4O10)(F,OH)2 to K(Li1.5Al1.5)(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2
Group Parent: 
Mica
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Colour: 
Pink, light purple, light rose red
Streak: 
White
Piatek Minerals

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