Elbait

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Tourmaline (Var.: Indicolite), Quartz

Locality: Barra de Salinas district, Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil (Locality at mindat.org)

Size: 5.4 x 5.2 x 1.5 cm.

This is a superb combination piece, probably from the 1960s-1970s, of gem blue-green indicolite tourmaline perched on a floater quartz crystal. The tourmaline is 5.5 cm long, perfect on the termination, and totally 100% transparent. The piece is simply striking. Ex. Dave Michaels Collection.

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tourmaline var. achroite, feldspar var. orthoclase : Konar Province (Kunar Province ; Konarh Province ; Konarha Province), Nuristan Afghanistan

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Författare/Upphovsman: Eva K., Licens: GFDL 1.2

Mineraliensammlung des Naturmuseums Senckenberg

Elbait (Turmalin)

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Författare/Upphovsman: Dicklyon, Licens: CC BY-SA 4.0
Elbaite specimen at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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Författare/Upphovsman: Ivar Leidus, Licens: CC BY-SA 4.0
Deep green slightly translucent terminated elbaite crystal with albite (3.5 × 2.5 × 1.0 cm). Found from São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Författare/Upphovsman: Ra'ike (see also: de:Benutzer:Ra'ike), Licens: CC BY 3.0
Group Tourmaline - Elbaite, variety Verdelite in Quartz, from Brazil

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Tourmaline (Var.: Rubellite)

Locality: Jonas Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil (Locality at mindat.org)

Size: 5.1 x 4.2 x 3.9 cm.

This is a vibrant, sparkling "jewel-like" cluster of slender gem Jonas rubellite crystals, spraying up from matrix one side. On the bottom, more robust, darker crystals can be seen. The two major crystals on the upper right side are terminated.