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PHEN09-05
Phenakite
Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Thumbnail, 2.1 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm
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In person this is a total GEM! It looks for all the world like a garnet at first glance and like no phenakite I have seen before, with typical surface complexity. But it is, instead, one of these new phenakites - a superb thumbnail crystal. It is a floater, complete all around though it encloses a small bit of brown matrix inside (maybe cleanable). The crystal itself is absolutely colorless, a pure colorlessness that adds to the gemminess of the specimen in person (and makes it extremely hard to photograph because light refracts off all the hundreds of facets and faces here, bouncing back and forth through the crystal and making the camera unable to capture its true clarity).