Kyanite

 

Origin: Bakersville, Mitchell Co., North Carolina, USA

Sample size: 4 x 1 cm

 

Origin: Selbur, Norway

Sample size: 6 x 5 x 2 cm, crystals to 6 cm

 

  

Kyanite on quartz

Origin: Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 10 x 7 x 5 cm

 

Origin: Bakersville, Mitchell Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.

Sample size: 6.5 x 4 x 1 cm

 

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Origin: Halderman's Mt., Lincoln Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Kyanite (blue) with staurolite

Origin: Pizzo Forno, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland

Owner: Milton Speckels

Sample size: about 7 cm

 

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Blue kyanite intergrown with brown staurolite

Origin: Pizzo Forno, Tessin, Switzerland

Picture height: 21 mm

Sample owner: W.J. Lustenhouwer

 

 

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Origin: Bahia, Brazil

Sample size: 5 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm

 

  

 

  

Kyanite in quartz

Origin: Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 5.7 x 3.9 x 1.3 cm (top), 5.5 x 4.5 x 4.6 cm (2nd/bottom row)

 

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Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 6 x 6 x 10.5 cm

 

  

Blue opaque jagged edged terminated prismatic crystals of kyanite to 7.3 cm in length frozen in a massive white quartz matrix.

Origin: Barra de Salinas Mine, Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Sample size: 6.6 x 5.2 x 11.5 cm

 

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Origin: Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Sample size: 12 x 8.5 cm

 

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Origin: Pizzo Forno, near Campolungo, Tessin, Switzerland

Sample size: 6 x 14 cm

 

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