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Elbaite With Quartz & Cleavelandite

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Description
Locality: 
Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.4 × 4.1 cm
Weight: 
20.00gr
Description

Exceptional group of polychrome and shiny striated Elbaite crystals implanted on two faden Quartz crystals up to 45 mm. The colour varies within the same perfectly biterminated Elbaite crystal, from intense pink, to green, to the colourless of Acroite, in the opposite termination. The largest Elbaite crystal has dimensions cm 1,8 x 08 x 0,7 . The group is a floating geode center of exceptional atypical aesthetic effect and rare in colour for the location.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Elbaite

Formula: 
Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fonte del Prete, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Cleavelandite

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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€9.50
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€13.50
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