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Tourmaline

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Tourmaline

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Description
Locality: 
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.5 × 5.1 × 3.8 cm
Description

A fantastic assemble of steel-blue tourmaline set on a small base of lustrous, snowy white cleavelandite with minor violet lepidolite. The top of the elongated, glossy tourmaline crystal is sharp end-pointed and shows a small area of greenish zoning. You can see the blue color even under daylight, no lamps are needed! Like 99% of al specimen in this dimension from Pederneira also this one is repaired, well done in the lab of Pezotta. The assemble is simple breath-taking, couldn´t be more aesthetic and this dimension is really impressive - a center piece for each tourmaline collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

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