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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Stewart mine, Pala dist., San Diego Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Na(Al1.5Li1.5)Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4
- Size
- SmCabinet 8x5x5cm
- Tagged
- pegmatite mineral
Divergent groups of pink Elbaite, variety rubellite, to 3cm in Lepidolite. Collected in 1946 by Arnold Hampson.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Formula
- Na(Al1.5Li1.5)Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.3x0.8x0.7cm
- Tagged
- pegmatite mineral
A cool hollowed out elbaite tourmaline. It was probably hollowed by replacement of the center and later removal.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Paprok, Kamdesh dist., Nuristan, Afghanistan
- Formula
- Na(Al1.5Li1.5)Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4
- Size
- SmCabinet 9x4x4cm
Group of six sub-parallel crytals of Elbaite with a deep pink color and light green tips. The terminations are frosted, capped, or etched. The longest crystal is 8.5cm long and has great luster and striations.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine, United States
- Formula
- Na(Al1.5Li1.5)Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4
- Size
- SmCabinet 9x4x5.5cm
- Tagged
- pegmatite mineral
Large dark red tourmaline crystal which multiple fractures rehealed with Quartz or Albite. Really neat specimen.
Collected in 1945 by Arnold Hampson. Read Hampson's bio here.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Mesa Grande Mining dist., San Diego County, California, United States
- Formula
- Na(Al1.5Li1.5)Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4
- Size
- Miniature 4.5x1.5x1.2cm
- Tagged
- pegmatite mineral
Red, striated, crystal with pyramidal termination. Good piece, solid color.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Himalaya mine, San Diego Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Na(Al1.5Li1.5)Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4
- Size
- Cabinet 10x8x3cm
- Tagged
- pegmatite mineral
Tourmaline crystals with cores of Schorl and outer perimeter of pinkish Elbaite.. There is one crystal of Schorl which appear as three crystals grown in parallel. Mineralogically interesting and good study piece for crystal growth habits in a pegmatite.
