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Mineral Specimens with Lepidolite
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4.8 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm. A VERY RARE and BEAUTIFUL combination specimen from Paprok, Afghanistan. Two, lustrous, sharp, intergrown, octahedral, brown microlite crystals are very nicely attached to the base of a very glassy and lustrous, parallel-growth, pastel-pink tourmaline crystal, which has a light blue zone, just below the matte termination. The microlites are aesthetically associated with pearlescent, tabular, purple lepidolite crystals. Microlite is a rare tantalum oxide and this is a SUPER and SHOWY pristine combo piece.
4.4 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm. Lepidolite is almost always seen as an "accessory" mineral on specimens, but here is an example of Himalaya lepidolite where you have a pretty, translucent, lavender book of crystals that makes a nice specimen all by itself, framed by bladed cleavelandite.
10.5 x 3.0 x 2.7 cm. This MAGNIFICENT bi-colored CABINET gem tourmaline was obtained in a lucky purchase via satellite phone email from the mines, on its way down the hills to Peshawar, yet uncleaned. The lustre of this pink grading up to the termination cranberry-red beauty is off the charts. The lower half of the crystal is partially wrapped in light lavender to off-white lepidolite. The STRIKING pyramidal termination is very gemmy. Hefty at 157 grams!
8.4 x 7.9 x 3.1 cm. From a recent find in Brazil - TRANSLUCENT crystals of YELLOW lepidolite (almost always thought of as lavender). These are actually little ball-shaped stacks of densely-packed, tabular crystals.
7.7 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm. This is a complete, terminated, gemmy crystal of tourmaline whose back side is completely blanketed in tan lepidolite crystals, which wrap around the sides so that they frame the crystal as you view it in front! This is an old-timer from Cruzeiro, and really unique-looking with these lepidolites. Weighs 26 grams. Collection of French dealer in Brazilian minerals, Michel Jactat.
8.2 x 7.3 x 6.6 cm. This specimen out of the Elling Collection has an old Eugene Sensel collection label with it. It features a number of large green tourmalines, to 5.5 cm in length, attractively piled up on a contrasting matrix. The tourmalines show good transparency, and the piece was extracted with all but a few of the crystal terminations intact. The brecciated matrix that is shot through with translucent columnar books of lepidolite.
7.5 x 6.0 x 3.7 cm. An aesthetic trident-like specimen of three, gemmy and lustrous, watermelon tourmalines partially wrapped in pastel-pink lepidolite from Coronel Murta in Brazil. The raspberry-red cores are beautifully capped by gemmy, sea-green terminations. All three terminations are different!!! Amazing! On the same piece! I particularly like the scalloped termination on the large tourmaline. This is an uncommon Coronel Murta tourmaline varietal, and is a good one, at that. Damage free. Ex. Chris Korpi Collection.
5.4 x 3.4 x 2.6 cm, 3.9 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm, 3.8 x 2.4 x 1.6 cm. Three specimens of lavender lepidolite from the Himalaya, of 3 different styles: a cluster of brushy balls, a cluster of stacked, translucent "books," and a larger, isolated "book" on feldspar.
8.0 x 7.8 x 7.4 cm. This stunning find was made last year -- of YELLOW lepidolite, piled up in these super-rich specimens made up of thousands of platy crystals massed together in these pretty TRANSLUCENT stacks. I think they are just spectacular for the species, which is not often pretty like this -- except in the similarly stacked and also rare translucent lavender crystals. But YELLOW? Wow.
7.8 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm. A GORGEOUS, "cityscape" cluster of parallel-growth tourmaline crystals beautifully accented by a bit of pastel-pink lepidolite from Coronel Murta, Brazil. The emerald-green tourmaline crystals have superb gemminess and lustre and have nicely complimentary, yellow-green terminations. Complete all-around and very nearly pristine, with only a broken tip on the lowest sidecar crystal.
12 x 11 x 10 cm. I think we were all shocked when, to our surprise, monster blue topaz began to appear on the market early last year from near the site of the original finds in 1969, in Brazil. This monstrous crystal is miraculously pristine. It is one of the largest, to be sure - but more importantly than mere size, it is one of the largest that is intact and complete all around. It was protected when I obtained it when this lot came out, by a natural coat of lepidolite. Weight 1555 grams.
21 x 15 x 14 cm. Stunning white Cleavelandite is host, and it is sprinkled with metallic purple lepidolite as well so that color abounds and everything is nice and sparkly. The gorgeous multicolored tourmalines (to 4.3 inches or 11 cm in height) stick up and out; while gemmy, clear, perfect quartz points grow amongst the tourmaline on the right side and stick out laterally towards the viewer in front. The tourmalines have a very 3-dimensional geometry, poking out every which way. Ex. Martin Zinn Collection.
14 x 12 x 6 cm. I think one can safely state that this is a MAJOR Himalaya Mine cluster, and aesthetic as well. Few large Himalaya pieces of this magnitude have been recovered, compared to all the mining down there over 100 years from 1900 to 2000, as the pegmatite is enormously disrupted. This incredible large Himalaya Mine cluster was safely kept in the mine-owner's personal collection for many years until Gene traded it from him, in the mid-90s. Gene then owned it for about a decade until trading it to me, through Wayne Thompson. It is a complete cluster all around, 3-dimensional and terminated on every crystal. Ex. Dr. Eugene Meieran, William Larson Collections.
24 x 14 x 11 cm. This is a truly unique piece from this mine. It consists of a 17.5 cm-long "sword" of tourmaline shooting out majestically from a "tree" of thick crystals, with lepidolite and albite mixed in for contrast. In person, the shocking stark white blades of Cleavelandite and the sparkly purple lepidolite stand out a lot more, and really contrast with the gemmy green tourmaline. The cluster, the whole tree-and-sword combination, is itself growing and rising out of a 13 x 9 cm TERMINATED TOURMALINE CRYSTAL THAT SERVES as the natural base for the piece. It looks like nothing so much as a tree rising from a lake...the green tourmaline base even has what looks like ripples on the water surface.
7.3 x 5.5 x 3.6 cm. A very rich and attractive pinkish-purple Lepidolite crystal cluster comprising dozens upon dozens of sharp, lustrous crystals, some of which are rather gemmy in areas. This is certainly a dense specimen of this material and most of the crystal groups are undamaged. The piece is crystallized on all sides. Ex. Brian Kosnar.
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