Vesuvianite

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

Origin: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada

Sample size: 5.3 x 3.3 x 3.1 cm (top), 5.0 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 4.5 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm (3rd row), 2.8 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm (4th row left), 2.3 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm (4th row right), 13.0 x 10.8 x 5.0 cm (bottom)

 

  

Vesuvianite on blue calcite

Origin: Kaiiado District, Rift Valley Province, Kenya

Sample size: 4.1 x 2.7 x 2 cm

 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Patches of small crystals and massive of the blue vesuvianite variety Cyprine with quartz, fluorite and thulite; with old label of Mineralien-Niederlage der Bergakademie Freiberg, Sachsen.

Origin: Sauland, Telemark, Norway

Sample size: 3.5 x 6 cm

 

2 cm long vesuvianite crystals, variey egeran, in and on matrix
Origin: Cheb (Eger), Czech Republic

Sample size: 3 x 4.5 cm

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