Elbaite, Lepidolite

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The Golconda Mine of Brazil has produced a stunning array of tourmalines in widely different colors and crystal forms. This striking cabinet crystal is certainly different from most tourmalines you will see. The lustrous, translucent, well-striated, polychrome tourmaline is doubly terminated and one side has a preferential sheath of yellowish-tan lepidolite. Most of the tapered crystal is sea-green with zones of pleasing cranberry-red, especially at the pyramidal termination. This termination also has a highly unusual, planar extension of tourmaline. The thicker, lustrous, pinacoidal termination is a gorgeous, bluish-purple. Older material dating to the 1960s or 1970s. Weighs 132 grams. Ex. George Elling Collection.