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CC20765

ELBAITE on QUARTZ with LEPIDOLITE

ELBAITE on QUARTZ with LEPIDOLITE

CUSTOM STAND INCLUDED

Size:
70 x 68 x 35 mm
Regular price $4,500.00 USD
Regular price Sale price $4,500.00 USD
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Detailed information

Species Elbaite, Quartz, Tourmaline
Dimensions 70 x 68 x 35 mm
Locality Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta Jequitinhonha Valley Minas Gerais, Brazil
Condition No recorded repairs
Custom Stand Yes - custom stand included
Wow and double wow! What a fabulous specimen this is! A broad, skyscraper-like tower of bluish-green Elbaite Tourmaline emerges vertically from a horizontal matrix of sub-parallel snow-white Cleavelandite crystals, the bladed variety of Albite Feldspar. Just for good measure the Cleavelandite is peppered with occasional lavender Lepidolite mica crystals and small Elbaite prisms, each of around 5 mm long. The Elbaite tower sits on another part crystal of Elbaite which emerges out from the Albite, where its rough, cleaved end reveals an inner core of rich raspberry-red Elbaite of the watermelon variety. Both this and the main Elbaite crystals are translucent deep spring leaf-green tending to a metallic-green. The 4.5 cm tall prism terminates in a pinacoid of paler green although end-on, the pinacoid appears bluish-green. A cojoined parallel Elbaite prism, 2.5 cm tall, and of the same colour, terminates in a delightful cornflower-teal blue. Enough said, it is a gorgeous combination of Elbaite Tourmaline and Albite from Barra de Salinas and one which is sure to delight.

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