Albite

Albite with lepidolite on quartz

Origin: Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., California, U.S.A.

Owner: Milton Speckels

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Area 6mm of platy crystals

1mm crystal with tiny pale green acicular pumpellyite crystals

1.2mm crystal group

Origin: Carsaig Bay, Carsaig, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

 

0.6mm crystals

Origin: Hendre quarry, Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire (Clwyd), Wales, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

 

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Cleavelandite, lepidolite, and tourmaline

Origin: Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 8 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm

 

Origin: Mogok, Burma

Sample size: 7.5 x 5 x 4.5 cm

 

  

Variety cleavelandite and muscovite

Origin: Urucum Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 11 x 8 x 8.5 cm

 

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Variety pericline

Aggregates of 0.5-1 cm large albite crystals covered with brown coating in association with chlorite and a 1 cm large hematite crystal

Origin: Feldbach, Binntal, Switzerland

Sample size: 3 x 5 cm

 

Variety repidolite in chlorite matrix

Origin: Côte de Loqueltas, Ile de Groix, morbihan, France

Sample size: 4.5 x 6 cm

 

Variety pericline

Origin: Hocharn, Rauris, Salzburg, Austria

Sample size: 5 x 6 cm

 

 

Origin: Mt. Alluaiv, Lovozero, Kola, Russia

Sample size: 4 x 7 cm (top), thumbnail (bottom)

 

Variety cleavelandite

Origin: Landsverk 1 Quarry, Evje-Iveland, Norway

Sample size: 3.5 x 4.5 cm

 

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