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Elbaite - Tourmaline with Quartz

$450.00

$40.00 shipping
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Tucson, Arizona, USA

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This 3.2 cm tall Elbaite Tourmaline crystal is from a new gem pocket found in the Coronel Murta district of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The pocket contained a stunning variety of vivid pink Elbaite crystals associated with various combinations of typical pegmatite species such as Quartz, Albite Feldspar and Lepidolite Mica. This translucent prism has a small unterminated Elbaite set horizontally just above its base and several milky-white, double terminated Quartz crystals epitaxially aligned up one side. The crystal has a curved triangular pinacoid termination and when back-lit, displays a number of gemmy patches. No repairs have been made to this specimen and it is displayed nicely on a small colourless acrylic base.