Lepidolite

Item Description

A beautiful group of reddish-purple Lepidolite from the Morro Redondo Mine in Brazil. The Lepidolite crystals have interesting form with a mixture of almost columnar crystals and plumose-esque growth. The piece shoes decent translucency when backlit. This is a good quality Lepidolite, as you don't see many Mica specimen with such attractive well-formed crystals like this. It's important to note that Lepidolite was for many years a valid species, but it now defined as a Li-rich mica in, or close to, the so-called Polylithionite-Trilithionite series. Nonetheless, do not miss out on this great Brazilian display piece, as good specimens of Lepidolite (or any Mica species) are not common on the market.