Microlite

  

  

Bright orange crystals of microlite show up among the bright green leaves of mica. The microlite crystals are up to 1 mm.

Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ex. Alessandro Genazzani colection

Sample size: 4.5 x 2.5 x 3 cm

 

  

This specimen is all crystalline microlite. It was fractured in placed and then rehealed with additional microlite mineralization. The last phase saw small acicular crystals of snow white zircon deposited on the microlite between 1 and 2 mm in size.

 

  

 

Microlite on albite

  

Microlite with muscovite on albite

Origin: Ipe Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 4.2 x 3.3 x 1.6 cm (top), 3.3 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm (2nd row), 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm (3rd/4th row), 4 x 3 x 2 cm (5th row), 8.3 x 6.1 x 4 cm (6th/bottom row)

 

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Microlite on tourmaline with lepidolite

Origin: Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan

Sample size: 2.2 x 1.3 x 1 cm (top), 5 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm (bottom)

 

  

  

 

  

  

Microlite on albite and muscovite

Origin: Ipe Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Sample size: 2.3 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm (top/2nd row), 2.7 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm (3rd/4th/bottom row)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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