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Tourmaline group with Lepidolite and Albite var. Cleavelandite
A delicate and very attractive looking Tourmaline crystal, 5.5 cm long and roughly half-coated along its full length with tiny, sub-mm platy crystals of Lepidolite mica. From Virgem da Lapa in the Jequitinhonha valley of Minas Gerais, Brazil, the Tourmaline is a uniform limey mid bottle-green, highly translucent, with striated prism faces and a bright glassy lustre. The Lepidolite, although silver-white, appears an attractive light tan due to iron staining around the peripheral crystal edges. Near to the base, a single, colourless half-hexagonal crystal of Cleavelandite protrudes, this being the platy variety of Albite feldspar.
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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions1.4 x 5.9 x 1.3 cm
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Added on10/24/2024
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$700.00—Species and Locality Wiki Pages
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