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Elbaite

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Elbaite

Ex J & S Mommers, Ex B Shelton Collections

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Description
Locality: 
Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Bahia, Brazil
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
0.6 × 3 × 0.7 cm
Description

A wonderful single elbaite crystal with a minor parallel crystal which commences at the base as a dark green prisms grading into gemmy pink and with a hint of paler green at the sharp termination.

Collected around 1975, this specimen was acquired by Brian Shelton in Switzerland and was acquired in 2005 by the seller  when the Shelton Tourmaline Collection was sold

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...
Earthstones Australia

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