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Elbaite with Lepidolite and Albite

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Product details

Species
Albite, Lepidolite, ElbaiteAbout Albite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions3.0 x 5.0 cm
Added on06/16/2025
Locality
Brazil, Minas Gerais, Pederneira mineRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
06/2025Unknown OwnerNot disclosed
—MChMineralsNot disclosed

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Albite
Mineral guide
Learn about Albite
sodium plagioclase famed for snow-white cleavelandite blades and Alpine pericline crystals; pegmatite matrices, bright luster, and appeal.
Albite
Regional guide
Albite from Pederneira Mine, Brazil
At Pederneira, albite is not merely the white “matrix” under the mine’s famous tourmalines. It is one of the visual signatures of the locality: bright, bladed cleavelandite sprays and sugary to platy albite masses that set off green, blue, pink, and multicolored elbaite, lavender lepidolite, smoky to citrine quartz, muscovite, morganite, fluorapatite, and other late-stage pegmatite minerals. The finest pieces have the crisp, architectural contrast collectors want from lithium-pegmatite specimens: glassy tourmaline spears rising from snowy albite blades, or quartz crystals nested among pearly cleavelandite fans.