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Tourmaline

Ex Marcus Voigt, Erftstadt, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Eibenstock, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6 × 9 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.20cm
Weight: 
342.00gr
Description

There are only a few occurences in Germany which have produced tourmaline that is not black schorl and most of them are situated in the area Chemnitz - Erzgebirge, Saxony.
This fine old specimen hosts pink acicular crystals of tourmaline (var rubellite) up to 2.2 cm, frozen in a pegmatitic feldspar-quartz-mica matrix.

Comes with two antique labels.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

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

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