Ruby w/ Mavinite (rare mica) & Quartz

Item Description

A beautiful, stout, doubly terminated, classic pigeons blood-red, ruby crystal is cloaked in platy, neon-green, mavinite blades with a stark, partial overcoat of quartz. The textbook hexagonal ruby is lustrous and is partially translucent. Mavinite is a unique green brittle mica found only at Karnataka, India. It is intermediate between "xanthophyllite" (= clintonite) and chloritoid and is not recognized as a distinct mineral species. Irregardless, this is a pristine, very rare and excellent example of the combination species and locale. Valued $600-800.