AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Maine > Elbaite Tourmaline in Quartz and Albite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 73645 |
Mineral: | Elbaite Tourmaline in Quartz and Albite |
Locality: | Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine |
Description: | Lustrous transparent green gemmy elbaite tourmaline crystal in matrix of white albite microcrystals and quartz microcrystals. The elbaite tourmaline crystal fractured and was frozen in place by the surrounding matrix. From my personal collection; collected ca. 1987 |
Overall Size: | 4x3.5x2 cm |
Crystals: | 22 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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