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Elbaite On Lepidolite

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Elbaite On Lepidolite

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Description
Locality: 
Alto Ligonha, Zambezia Province, Mozambique
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

This is a very glassy and lustrous tourmaline on a book of purple lepidolite. Combined with internal brightness and an obvious clarity and transparency, this purplish green elbaite on matrix makes a very attractive thumbnail. Old material, said to have been collected prior to the 1970s. Ex. Pala International Company Collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Elbaite

Formula: 
Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fonte del Prete, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

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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