Pollucite

Origin: Vodorazdelnye Chikoy Valley, Chita, Russia
Sample size: 2 x 1 x 1 cm, water clear crystal aggregate
 
  
Origin: Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6 x 2.5 x 2 cm glassy light yellow mass
 
  
Origin: Emmons Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, United States
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
 
  
  
  
Pollucite on lepidolite with fluornatromicrolite
Origin: near Kamdesh, Paprok, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Sample size: 9 x 5 x 5 cm (top/2nd row), 11 x 10 x 8 cm crystal (3rd/4th/bottom row)
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Pollucite with tourmaline
  
Pollucite with quartz
Origin: Wamaw, Dara Paich, Kunnar Prov., Afghanistan, Asia
Sample size: 12 x 11 x 4.8 cm (top/2nd row), 18 x 15 x 7 cm (3rd/bottom row)
 
  
A large 11.5 cm crystal of pollucite dominates one side of the specimen and a richly coloured 12 cm crystal of kunzite the other. There are numerous bi-coloured tourmaline crystals as well set on the side of the specimen
Origin: Malwi, Laghman Prov., Afghanistan, Asia
Sample size: 14.5 x 13.5 x 10 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

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