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Elbaite

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Elbaite

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Description
Locality: 
Naipa Mine, Gilé District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm
Description

A wonderful elbaite from this very rare locality! All around sharp terminated, with perfect end-points and highly lustrous faces. Next to fine pink color you can see some green zoning in the middle. Photos were done without any backlight, they hsow the crystal natural under daylight! This material is high ranked and high valued on the common market, caused by the rare locality. Naipa is famous for Elbaite since almost a century, but good crystals like the particular one are hard to obtain and even small ones priced for hundreds of dollars. 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...