Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Tsilaisite & Quartz

Views:
Watches:
SCH36775

Tsilaisite & Quartz

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Antsikoza Pegmatite, Manapa, Betafo, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 1.6 × 2 cm
Description

Beautiful deep magenta colored tsilaiste crystals to 7mm set on a quartz matrix for pretty contrast.

Tsilaisite is a manganese-rich variety of elbaite tourmaline. It is the theoretical end-member of the tourmaline group, never found in nature so far.  Commonly considered as a Mn-bearing elbaite as above.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tsilaisite

Variety Of: 

Tourmaline

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

Quartz

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