Spodumene

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

  

  

Kunzite with quartz and pollucite

Origin: Paprock, Kunar, Afghanistan

Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 4 cm

 

  

 

  

Kunzite on cookeite

Origin: Urucum Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America

Sample size: 12 x 9 x 3.5 cm (top),  20 x 10 x 6.5 cm (2nd/bottom)

 

     

Kunzite. There are also small nearly micro indicolite crystals set on the side of the specimen. The terminations of both crystals are full and, again, very sharp! The smaller of the two kunzite crystals is doubly terminated.

Origin: Nuristan, Laghman, Afghanistan

Sample size: 6.1 x 2 x 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Trinityminerals.com

 

  

Kunzite

Origin: Pala Chief mine, Pala, San Diego Co., California, United States
Erling Collection

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

     

  

  

Kunzite with minor quartz

Origin: Nuristan Province, Afghanistan

Sample size: 7.5 x 2.8 x 2.1 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone