Origin: Antandrokomby, Ibity, Madagascar
Sample size: 28 x 32 x 24 mm
Origin: Oktyabrskoye Pegmatite, Mallkhan, Chita District, Southern Siberia,
Russia
Sample size: 25 x 9 x 8 mm
Origin: Paprok, Afghanistan
Sample size: 40 x 9 x 6 mm
This is a complex cluster of gemmy, green elbaites associated with
lepidolite and
albite.
The biggest
lepidolite cluster is 0.7 cm long. The bigger elbaites fractured during
growth then either healed together to form a single basally terminated crystal
or started as single basally terminated crystal and diverged.
Origin: Virgem da Lapa, Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Origin: Virgem da Lapa, Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 7.0 x 3.0 x 2.3 cm
A liddicoatite crystal with the typical pyramidal termination.
Origin: Tampo Nyilapa mine, Sahatani Valley, Madagascar
Ex. Alessandro Genazzani collection
Sample size: 6 x 2.5 x 3 cm
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