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Rubellite & Quartz

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Rubellite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 7.8 × 5.8 cm
Description

The rubellite crystals is 22 mm tall and 9 mm in diameter. It is endpointed at the top, but not at the bottom. The upper two thirds are in perfect jam quality, flawless, highly lustrous and in very beautiful pink colour. The crystal is embedded to a light grey smokey quartz crystal with lustrous faces and attractive texture. The backside is intergrown to matrix, muscovite, schorl and lepidolite is also present. A fine sample of pegmatite mineralization.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rubellite

Variety Of: 

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Hardness: 
7
Hardness: 
0.0

Quartz

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