Tourmaline, Quartz

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With the demise of the Himalaya Mine, quality matrix specimens of US tourmaline are becoming more scarce. This specimen features a 5.5 cm pink tourmaline, which had been partially broken over time by tectonic movement and then continually rehealed in the pocket, resulting in a crystal with an obvious curvature! This is characteristic of the Himalaya and is quite interesting. It has one repair, at about 1/3 up the crystal. Besides the obvious quartz, there are blades of albite along with a few lepidolite crystals, making this a wonderful pocket combination specimen showing much about the environment these things form under. 12.9 x 9.7 x 7.3 cm