large, unusual Beryl (Lemanski Coll.)

Item Description

Beryl forms in all kinds of shapes, sizes, colors. This is a textbook crystal with a strange, ghostly opaque white color and hue, from some old discovery. Impressive, RARE style large beryl from an unknown locality in Governador Valadares. The dramatic sharp compound crystal consists of four intergrown textbook hexagonal prisms. The color of the lustrous porcelaneous crystal is very unusual in itself, being a variegated creamy green. Beryl is also uncommon from Governador Valadares, which includes the famous Golconda pegmatite field. In great shape, overall, with only a bit of edge wear on the frontal crystal and the embedded albite matrix. A significant and rare large beryl of this style and color from the locale. Mass is a hefty 1524 grams or 3.4 pounds! Valued at $2500 and comes with a custom, engraved lucite base for display. From the collection of Chet Lemanski (after whom Lemanskiite is named).