Kupletskite

Kupletskite on aegerine on orthoclase
Origin: 3M quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

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Lou Perloff

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Kupletskite on aegerine
Origin: 3M quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, U.S.A.
Owner: Milton Speckels
Microscopic image, 2.8 x
 

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Milton Speckels

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Kupletskite with aegerine and analcime
Origin: Big Rock quarry, Little Rock, Arkansas
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm with golden acicular micro crystals to 1 mm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Origin: Malawi
Sample size: 3.5 x 4.9 cm specimen. A small cluster of bronze-colored acicular crystals is formed at one end of the sample. The largest spray of crystals is about 6 mm long
 

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John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

1 cm large brown platy kupletskite overgrown with astrophyllite, associated with kutnahorite and others
Origin: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 2 x 4 x 5 cm
 
Brown micaceous Kupletskite-(Cs) crystals in matrix
Origin: Dara-i-Pioz, Tadjikistan
Sample size: micromount
 
  
Origin: Lake Seyd, Lovozero, Kola, Russia
Sample size: 1 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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