Lepidolite

$900.00

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A fine display as well as paragenetic specimen, showing well, the position of nicely-formed teal-blue and reddish prismatic Elbaite crystals embedded within Quartz, Albite and Lepidolite in pegmatite from Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Both flat-lying and partially embedded within the specimen surface, the main Elbaite crystal, at 3.1 cm in length, is doubly-terminated with a flat pinacoid face at one end and a sloping termination at the other and grading from teal-blue at its base upwards through pinkish-red undertones. The second tourmaline, which is uniformly teal-blue is not complete, missing sections at either end as shown by the 'cylindrical' cast left behind in the Quartz matrix. The remaining section reaches 2.7 cm in length. Coarse bladed white Cleavelandite is also intergrown with Quartz in the matrix and Lepidolite forms fine, scaly pearlescent aggregates on the surface.