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Elbaite With Quartz & Cleavelandite

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Elbaite With Quartz & Cleavelandite

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Description
Locality: 
Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm
Weight: 
8.00gr
Description

Single glossy and striated Elbaite polychrome crystal on which Cleavelandite sheets are placed. The colour varies within the same perfectly biterminated crystal, from intense pink, to green, to the colourless of Acroite, in the opposite termination. On the crystal there are some small growth crystals along the streaks. The crystal has dimensions of 4,5x0,8x0,8cm. The group is a floating geode center of exceptional atypical aesthetic effect and rare in colour due to its position.

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...

Quartz

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

Cleavelandite

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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Postage Area Price
ITALY
9.50
EUROPE ( AREA 1)
9.50
AMERICAN - ASIA - AFRICA ( AREA 2):
11
OCEANIA (AREA 3):
18