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Tourmaline Smoky Quartz & Cleavelandite

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Tourmaline Smoky Quartz & Cleavelandite

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Description
Locality: 
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
16.1 × 12.7 × 12.5 cm
Description

Awesome combination from Brazil. A beautiful tourmaline crystal which is 53mm tall and 52 in diameter which shows a super intense blue and fine terminated cap and a more pale pink area at the bottom. This crystal is perfectly embedded in smoky quartz matrix which is then also accompanied with some pale cleavelandite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

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

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Cleavelandite

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0