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Mineral Specimens with Lepidolite
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14.8 x 4.7 x 4.5 cm. This piece is a very impressive Tourmaline from the world famous Himalaya mine showing beautiful multicolor pink and green zoning. The upper portion of this large, fine quality crystal has a very good termination and actually has a light straw yellow color zone that is distinct "cat’s eye" quality gem material. The prism faces of the crystal have excellent luster and are not dull or frosted whatsoever. The crystal is associated with small purple color crystal clusters of Lepidolite which are sandwiched between the Tourmaline and a grey Microcline crystal section. It is doubly-terminated. Ex. Ben De Wit and Richard A. Kosnar Collections.
2.7 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm. A SUPER-CUTE thumbnail of a GEM, sharp, morganite crystal beautifully set upright in white albite and lavender lepidolite matrix from Galileia, Brazil. Just a really nifty specimen! Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
12.4 x 8.9 x 5.5 cm. An old-timer combo specimen from a classic California locality! This is a specimen of solid lavender lepidolite microcrystals, intergrown with bladed albite, but the star of which is dozens of very gemmy deep pink tourmaline crystals. The tourmalines measure to 1.5 cm. The combination of the white, pink and lavender is truly dazzling - what a pretty and showy (and sizeable!) specimen to demonstrate the richness of California pegmatites!
8.4 x 6.5 x 4.3 cm. A UNIQUE, RARE and VERY SHOWY combination specimen from the Elizabeth R. Mine on Chief Mountain. A cluster of three, sharp, lustrous, dark gray tantalite crystals to 1.4 cm are aesthetically nested on quartz-rich matrix covered with lepidolite, smoky quartz crystals and a scattering of cleavelandite blades. The large, translucent, DOUBLY TERMINATED smoky is 3.5 cm and has an undamaged, frosted termination. Ex. Chris Korpi Collection.
5.4 x 3.7 x 2.9 cm. A gemmy and lustrous, polychrome tourmaline aesthetically wrapped in two generations of lustrous lepidolite blades, purple and tan, from an uncommon Minas Gerais pegmatite, the Arqueana Mine, Governador Valadares. The beautiful green body has a teal-blue indicolite zone below the lusrous, frosted termination. Ex. Marty Lewadny Collection. 63 grams.
7.3 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm. A rare matrix specimen of tourmaline from the Jonas Mine, from the world-famous pocket of 1978 that is still the most important and famous single tourmaline strike in all of history. Featuring an approximately 2-inch crystal, doubly terminated and frozen in enclosing crystallized lepidolite, this is a classic representation of the find. Ex. Sorbonne and Eric Asselborn Collections.
11.8 x 7.2 x 6.9 cm. This extraordinary lavender lepidolite is often called "ball" lepidolite due to the fact that the sheety crystals form these bubbly forms. This is a big specimen that appears to be a solid lump of solid lepidolite.
6.0 x 5.4 x 4.5 cm. A superb gemmy and lustrous, 2.6 cm, vivid cranberry-red tourmaline crystal from the most famous tourmaline discovery of all time at the Jonas Mine in 1978. This gem tourmaline is beautifully set on a 3-dimensional matrix of lustrous, very pastel-purple/light gray lepidolite crystals and bladed albite. A couple of smaller rubellites are a gorgeous accent.
5.3 x 5.2 x 3.4 cm. An aesthetic and superb matrix tourmaline specimen from the Steve Smale Collection and the Pederneira Mine. This classic, old-time specimen from the 1960s or 70s features a 5.3 cm tourmaline crystal attached to a ball of pearlescent cleavelandite blades studded with smaller tourmalines and a faint dusting of purple lepidolite. The lustrous, very nearly pristine tourmaline is predominantly olive-green. A beautifully gemmy, grass-green zone lies just beneath the pristine, black pinacoid termination. An interesting feature, is that the lower quarter of the large tourmaline is hollow.
7.5 x 5.9 x 3.9 cm. A bright and sparkly mass of lepidolite with Cleavelandite crystals growing within, from which emerges a very gemmy tourmaline of just under 1 cm. The tourmaline is gemmy.
6.0 x 3.3 x 2.4 cm. A gorgeous, gemmy, 4-cm-long crystal of red rubellite projecting from an aesthetic matrix of lepidolite. The doubly-terminated quartz floating to the right makes a perfect accent.
2.2 x 1.1 x 1.0 cm. This is a superb specimen with fiery color. It is exceptionally gemmy and lustrous, and the red is unusually intense for a smaller crystal.
9.5 x 7.6 x 5.3 cm. This is a superb morganite specimen. The crystal is 5 cm across and glassy, with a unique scalloped surface termination I have only rarely seen on beryls, and on none other from San Diego County that I can recall. Note that this is from the Stewart Mine and not from the more well known White Queen. The piece was probably found prior to 1960. The specimen was illustrated with his beryls on page 137 of the Barlow Collection book (1998). Barlow sold the collection in 1998 and this piece disappeared into the private collection of Lawrence Conklin.
4 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm. A fine miniature tourmaline specimen from the Pederneira, with a pure gem, 2-cm “pencil” crystal shooting out from a cluster of smaller crystals – all terminated. The only small matrix contact is underneath. Pretty association of bladed white cleavelandite and lavender lepidolite.
16.9 x 14.0 x 6.8 cm. An incredibly large and rich specimen of translucent, lavender lepidolite, from Peech. This large, heavy specimen is solid lepidolite, and on top, it has formed wonderful crystallized "flowers" with a thin "snowfall" of albite. Lying across the lepidolite is a gemmy, three-centimeter, terminated crystal of tourmaline.
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