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Mineral Specimens with Elbaite
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2.1 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm. A fine and showy cluster of intensely purple apatite crystals from the Mawi Pegmatite of Afghanistan. The crystals have excellent lustre and translucency. The cluster is complete-all-around and is nicely complimented by tiny indicolite tourmalines on the backside. A superb example of this rare, intense color.
A simply gorgeous, aesthetic, gemmy, lustrous indicolite tourmaline with smaller protruding tourmalines, purple lepidolite crystals and a lustrous, white blade of cleavelandite. The darker pinacoid termination has low lustre. The one barely noticeable termination edge ding has no effect on this beautiful specimen, which hails from an unidentified Minas Gerais, Brazil locality (though I suspect it is Golconda Mine or area) 4.1 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm
3.5 x 2.8 x 2.3 cm. This is a superb Otjua tourmaline specimen. This 3.5 cm section, although not terminated, is gemmy and as deep of a blue as you could ever hope to find in a Tourmaline. Weighs 62 grams.
8.3 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm. This extraordinarily gemmy and glassy crystal is from the collection of Steve Smale, a well-known aficionado for tourmalines who obtained many at the source in the 1980s and early 1990s. Exchanged from his long-held stash, this is a very gemmy, glassy, crystal with subtle colors grading into an intense cranberry-red termination. It is a unique pocket and style, still to this day, for the mine. Weighs 33 grams.
6.4 x 4.1 x 3.0 cm. A beautiful cluster of two intergrown crystals in sculptural arrangement, very fine for the size and the aesthetics. It also has the classic pink-red color and unusually good translucency for a Himalaya Mine tourmaline specimen. It is actually a floater because the bottom tips are also terminated (though not as sharply as the upper). Ex. Chris Korpi Collection.
7.7 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm. This gem pencil-shaped tourmaline is 25 grams in mass, and has excellent transparency and electric green color. It is a very rare example from the so-called lipstick pocket of a straight-terminated crystal with a flat top instead of the cranberry cap one is used to seeing from this find some years ago (1980s). Yet, note the little lipstick-like crystal hanging off it that proves it is from that find, made famous long ago. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
8.0 x 1.7 x 1.0 cm. A beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, parallel-growth, "red-tip", polychrome tourmaline from the Cruzeiro Mine. The gemmy, wine-red pinacoidal terminations grade downward to a pleasing purplish-red to a very gemmy, bluish-greenish-gray at the base. This striking crystal is exceptional in that it is slightly bent. This specimen is complete-all-around and pristine. This is classic, old 1960s-1970s material from this renowned locale. Ex. Steve Smale Collection. Weighs 20 grams.
6 x 4.7 x 4.5 cm. Classic material for this pegmatite. Two double terminated tourmalines (with good luster, to 4.7 cm) on double terminated quartz. Albite penetrates the crystals as is typical of this locality, and a white coating covers the albite and some faces of the quartz crystal. The top and bottom of the quartz crystal has nice luster and you can see through the faces into the center of the piece. The bottoms of the tourmalines are a gemmy light green, which grade into the dark green typical of this locality. The top terminations are achroite with pink at the very top of the termination.
2.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm. A really fine, bi-colored Brazilian tourmaline from the Steve Smale Collection. The very pleasing, gem, light wine-red body is capped by a strikingly different, emerald-green, pyramidal termination. Material of this quality came out in the 1960s-1980s, with very little since. Weighs 5 grams.
4.9 x 4.6 x 3.5 cm. Apatite is a seldom available mineral species from the Little Three Mine of San Diego County. A 3.5 cm wide, gray to lavender, tabular apatite crystal is attractively attached to the base or side of mounded knob of lustrous, translucent, smoky quartz crystals. Gemmy, pencil tourmalines are scattered about and one side has a rich coating of pink lepidolite microcrystals. Excellent locality material from the Chuck Houser Collection.
4.0 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm. A beautiful and lustrous, renowned "hot" pink tourmaline from the Stewart Mine of California. This is a beautiful, intensely color-saturated pink tourmaline, amongst the finest in San Diego County. The lustrous pinacoid termination has an interesting rippled/etched look. Weighs 16 grams.
7.8 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm. A striking, large, highly lustrous, parallel-growth, cranberry-colored tourmaline with colorful, light green terminations from Alto Ligonha, Mozambique. The two florets of purple lepidolite are a very nice accent. This is a large, complete-all-around specimen with numerous gemmy areas. Nearly pristine. Highly representative from this famous, but uncommon locality. Weighs 64 grams.
7.8 x 5.7 x 4.4 cm. This is a massive specimen of lepidolite, sparkly and lavender-colored, in which are embedded pastel red crystal sprays of rubellite tourmaline. Famous carving and lapidary material, this was once common in San Diego and is now hard to obtain in this quality and richness. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
11.0 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm. A treelike, good-sized tourmaline crystal with a glistening, shimmering exterior surface that looks almost as if it was composed of fibers, and not the usual solidified crystal you expect to see in a tourmaline. Unusual old material, though not from a specific mine name I can attribute to it. In person the color is a dark green-blue hue. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
9.5 x 1.0 x 0.7 cm. A totally limpid, completely gemmy, clean tourmaline of intense evergreen saturated color. This piece, 16 grams, is literally cutting quality. This comes from recent mining at this old locality.
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