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Lepidolite

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Description
Locality: 
Mauve Pegmatite, Harare District, Zimbabwe
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 5 × 3.7 cm
Description

Beautiful purple coloured laminar “lepidolite”, now defined as a polylithionite-trilithionite series, are stacked on rounded aggregates.

It comes with a handwritten label from René Virlet. Bought in 1969 from Gilbert Gauthier, who carried out a collecting/buying trip in the early 1960’s throw Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia).

Ex. René Virlet specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lepidolite

Synonym Of: 

Mica Group

Formula: 
KLi2Al(Si4O10)(F,OH)2 to K(Li1.5Al1.5)(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2
Group Parent: 
Mica
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Colour: 
Pink, light purple, light rose red
Streak: 
White

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