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Watermelon Tourmaline With Quartz

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Watermelon Tourmaline With Quartz

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 4.5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Weight: 
83.00gr
Description

Floater cluster of grey quartz crystals richly associated to prismatic bright-green tourmaline of darker green tops. Most of the tourmaline crystals are doubly terminated but some are incomplete at one end, so we can appreciate that the core is pinkish red, so they are watermelon tourmalines.

Acquired in 1998 by Johan Muizebelt.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Watermelon Tourmaline

Variety Of: 

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Hardness: 
7
Hardness: 
7.0 - 7.5

Quartz

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

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