Elbaite
Unknown Owner
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This is a bizarre tourmaline from some unusual finds in the late 1980s. It is "hairy" for lack of a better word, with a normal, typical, dark green body that suddenly transforms into a hair-like nest of acicular crystals atop. I should not use the word nest, though, because this implies disorder - the crystals are acicular and discrete. They do shoot up vertically on the correct crystal axis. It is just that the fibers did not merge, somehow, to form a normal termination encompassing all of them. This is one of the biggest of the group as I recall seeing them. I obtained bought the piece from Frank and Wendy Melanson in the late 1980s at the Cincinnati show. I sold it in the 1990s and never forgot it. Ex. Rob Lavinsky Collection.
Product details
SpeciesElbaite
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions9.3 x 4.4 x 3.3 cm
Added on10/23/2024
LocalityBrazil, Minas Gerais, Pederneira mine
Known provenance
| Date | Collector | Acquisition price |
|---|---|---|
| 08/2024 | Unknown Owner | Not disclosed |
| — | The Arkenstone | Not disclosed |
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