Elbaite with
quartz
Origin: Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., Cal.
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Sample size: 13 cm across
Photo courtesy of:
Anthony Kampf, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Origin: Naipa mine, Alto Ligonia district, Mozambique
Sample size: 4 cm x 4 mm
Origin: Lavra da Pederneira, Sao Jose Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: top 4 x 1.2 cm, bottom 3.5 x 1.2 cm
Elbaite with
lepidolite
Origin: Lavra da Pederneira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: top 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, bottom 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
Tourmaline, colour zoned from red center to green with three 2 cm
quartz
crystals
Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 3 x 2 x. 1.5 cm
Origin: Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 5 cm x 2 mm
Bi-coloured elbaite
Origin: Himalaya mine, Pala district, California, USA
Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
Origin: Landanai, Tanzania
Sample size: 1.5 cm
Origin: Auburn, Maine, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3 cm, crystal 2.5 cm, both ends broken
Elbaite on
quartz
Origin: Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Northeast Region, Brazil
Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 2 cm
Rubellite
Origin: Ingersol Mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, United States
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm
Slender red, prismatic crystals to 2 cm in
quartz.
Origin: Haapaluoma pegmatite, Peräseinäjoki, Vaasa, Länsi-Suomen Lääni,
Finland
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 3.5 cm
Photo courtesy of:
Tom Loomis
Elbaite, variety rubellite
Origin: Wolkenburg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: crystal length 7 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
Photo courtesy of:
Thomas Witzke
This specimen has some green coloured tourmaline at the top of the specimen
and some pink tourmaline at the bottom and the sides. The green tourmaline
doesn’t fluoresce but the pink variety does with a clear and solid blue but
exclusively under short wave UV (stereo photo). The activator is still
unknown. Tourmaline incorporates strange cations and thus possible activators
quite easily.
Origin: Lagman, Afghanistan
Owner: Axel Emmermann
Photo courtesy of:
Elbaite with
albite
Origin: Stak Nala, Gilgit division, Pakistan
Sample size: 3 2 x 2.5 x 6 cm, crystal 1.5 x 1.5 x 5.5 cm
Origin: Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego Co., California, U.S.A.
Ex Rick Schubert collection, Boise, Idaho
Sample size: 2 x 1.8 x 4 cm (top/2nd row), 3 x 2.4 x 6 cm (3rd/bottom row)
Origin: Barra de Salinas Mine, Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais,
Southeast Region, Brazil
Sample size: 8 x 6 x 17 mm
Origin: Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
Sample size: 10 x 5 x 25 mm
Photo courtesy of:
Dan Weinrich