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Elbaite

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Elbaite

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Description
Locality: 
Resplendor, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.20cm
Description

A pretty specimen of long prismatic, green, transparent, lustrous  elbaite crystals up to 2.2 cm in length on a doubly terminated quartz crystal. The elbaite crystals are not well terminated, the quartz crystal has not quite sharp edges but regardless a very aesthetic piece.

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...
Wendel Minerals

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