AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Maine > Elbaite Tourmaline and Lepidolite in Quartz |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 52563 |
Mineral: | Elbaite Tourmaline and Lepidolite in Quartz |
Locality: | May Day Pocket, Durgin #1 Prospect, Mount Marie, 7.5 km southeast of Paris Hill, Oxford County, Maine |
Description: | Lustrous transparent bi-colored elbaite tourmaline crystal 22 mm long with flat basal pinacoid termination embedded in crystallized white quartz with purple lepidolite crystals to 6 mm. The elbaite crystal is pink with green outer zones. |
Overall Size: | 33x26x21 mm |
Crystals: | micro to 22 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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