Zanazziite

  

  

 

  

  

  

  

 

  

his piece has several large, sharp, lustrous, well-formed, translucent, yellowish-green crystal groups of zanazziite which are sitting on a matrix of crystallized rose quartz and associated with several golden-brown crystals of eosphorite.

Origin: Lavra da Ilha (an island in the middle of the Jequitinhonha River), Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil (type locality)

Sample size: 5.1 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm (top/2nd/3rd row), 3.2 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm (4th/5th/6th/7th row), 2.5 x 1.9 x 0.4 cm (8th/bottom row)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone