Tugtupite

  
Origin: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq, Greenland
Sample size: 5 x 2 x 5.5 cm
 
  
  
Origin: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq, Greenland
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 6.5 x 4 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Tugtupite on albite
  
Tugtupite and neptunite on albite
  
Tugtupite on albite, fluorescence under SW-UV light
  
Origin: Tugtup, Greenland
Sample size: 3.9 x 2 cm (top), 4.2 x 2.5 cm (2nd/3rd row), 4.6 x 2.5 cm (4th row), 2.1 x1.3 cm (bottom left), 2.2 x 0.7 cm (bottom right)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

Pink tugtupite in matrix
Origin: Shkatulka pegmatite, Umbozero Mine, Lovozero, Kola, Russia
Sample size: 1 x 2 x 2 cm
 
Pink tugtupite in matrix
Origin: Nunasarnaussaq, Illimaussaq, Greenland, Denmark
Sample size: thumbnail
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

Origin: Ilimaussaq alkaline complex, Greenland
Sample size: 6.5 x 4.6 x 1.0 cm
 
  
 
  
  
Cherry-red tugtupite, in albite and aegirine matrix, strongly fluorescent under SW-UV
  
Origin: Kvanefjeldet, Ilimaussaq massif, Greenland
Sample size: 4.4 x 4.0 x 1.8 cm (top), 11.8 x 8.5 x 7.0 cm (2nd/3rd row), 8.2 x 7 x 1 cm thick (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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