Tourmaline with Lepidolite (New Find)

Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Small Cabinet, 6.2 x 2.5 x 1.7 cm
Start Time: 02/20/2010 6:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/25/2010 6:30:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

A pleasing green, gemmy and lustrous, doubly terminated, tourmaline from a NEW 2009 find at the famous Pederneira Mine is partially wrapped and sprinkled with sparkly, pastel-pink, lepidolite crystals. The steeply pyramidal, dark green termination is strangely etched. The basal termination of the two crystals was broken by pocket forces, healed, partially etched/hollowed out and filled with scattered lepidolite crystals! Nifty and pristine. 16 grams.

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