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Uvite Tourmaline from Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil

 
Uvite Tourmaline from Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil

Uvite Tourmaline from Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil

Uvite Tourmaline from Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil

Uvite Tourmaline from Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil

Uvite Tourmaline from Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil

Uvite Tourmaline from Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil

DESCRIPTION:No. 61855
Mineral:Uvite Tourmaline
Locality:Brumado District, Serra das Éguas, Bahia, Brazil
Description:Lustrous transparent-to-translucent red uvite tourmaline crystals with minor colorless magnesite on one side. The uvite tourmaline crystals are short prisms with shallow three-faced pyramidal terminations. Many crystals are in parallel orientation. From the private thumbnail-sized mineral collection of Frank Melanson; collected in 1998.
Overall Size:15x12x11 mm
Crystals:0.5-7.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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