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Elbaite Tourmaline with Lepidolite core zone from Itatiaia Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

DESCRIPTION:	No. 55500
Mineral:	Elbaite Tourmaline with Lepidolite core zone
Locality:	Itatiaia Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Description:	Two intersecting large translucent dark-green elbaite tourmaline crystals with smaller elbaite crystals on the surfaces. The elbaite altered to gray lepidolite in the core (visible on ends and rear where the elbaite intersected another large crystal). Ex Doris J. Biggs Collection
Overall Size:	12x3.5x2.5 cm
Crystals:	1-110 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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