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Elbaite With Quartz & Lepidolite

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Elbaite With Quartz & Lepidolite

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Description
Locality: 
Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Mixed Specimens
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15 × 13.3 × 12.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
15.00cm
Description

Top Quality Twinned Tourmaline var Elbaite combined with Quartz and pink Lepidolite from famous Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Brazil.

This specimen comes from an old stock and I haven't seen such good Tourmaline from Brazil for a long time.

Luster watermelon Elbaite crystals partially blanketed with Quartz with pink Lepidolite. Crystals up to 9.0 cm

Great Museum size 

 

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...

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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

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