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Elbaite On Quartz

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Elbaite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.7 × 2.8 cm
Description

This perfect Elbaite is gemmy from top to bottom, with colour that grades from bright pink to green, then back to bright pink again. The crystals is excellent defined, sharp and lustrous. The striation and aslo the multifaced termination is great. The Elbaite is perched on a fragment of a Quartz crystal with some visible faces.

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
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