Kyanite

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Every now and then, a handful of these "blue stripe" kyanite crystals trickles out of Brazil, usually with the same dealer, and we always like to pick out a few good ones - because they are so distinctive. For one thing, they are translucent, unlike most kyanites - and they are not embedded in quartz. But what is best is the strange blue stripe running right through the middle, a really unusual example of crystal color zoning. The crystal is terminated on one end.