Zanazziite

  

  

  

This piece has a scattering of large, sharp, lustrous, well-formed, translucent, yellowish-green crystal groups of the rare phosphate zanazziite which are associated with golden-orange eosphorite blades aesthetically sitting on a matrix of crystallized rose quartz.

  

  

  

This piece has a scattering of large, sharp, lustrous, well-formed, translucent, yellowish-green crystal groups of the rare phosphate zanazziite which are associated with golden-orange eosphorite blades aesthetically sitting on a matrix of crystallized rose quartz.

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

Sample size: 5.8 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm (top/2nd/3rd row), 4.2 x 3.1 x 2.5 cm (4th/5th/6th/bottom row)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone