Elbaite, Quartz

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A cluster of intergrown tourmaline and quartz crystals from the Pederneira, quite colorful and lustrous and wonderfully aesthetic in overall form. The large pink-topped crystal has a healed termination; the green-capped ones are all terminated. If you look closely, you can see that one of the quartz crystals has a cluster of small tourmalines included inside it! These little green tourmalines grew straight off the side of the larger pink one, and then the quartz crystal growing from a different direction engulfed them when it reached them. A very pretty and delicate Pederneira piece.