Lomonosovite

  
Pinkish, thin plates of lomonosovite with brown replacements of bornemanite. Also associated are fine, pink acicular sprays to 1 mm of zorite, throughout matrix.
Origin: Yubileinaya pegmatite, Mt. Karnasurt, Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia
Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 3 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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