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English: Elbaite
Locality: Cruzeiro mine, São José da Safira, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil (Locality at mindat.org)
Size: 5.6 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm.
This is a geometrically complex, castle-like tourmaline whose shape is the product of intricate natural etching or dissolution effects acting upon the original tourmaline crystal. While common in spodumenes and kunzites, this effect is much less often seen in tourmalines. The piece is 3-dimensional and complete-all-around, except for some contact on the lower periphery where it stands. It is the most elegant of the three good specimens I saw at the Munich 2009 show. The shape and complexity is really mesmerizing, and quite different than other tourmalines you commonly see except for a certain resemblance in style to a few pockets from the Barra da Salinas Mine (famous for its etched scepters). Nevertheless, the color here is what takes this pocket to another level of uniqueness. They are an intense candy-red in color. These are more colorful even than the Jonas mine rubellites, which most of us consider to be the finest red rubellites known for purity of color. Only 4 specimens were available at the Munich Show, from what is reputed to be this very small pocket found in October of 2009.
Deutsch: Elbait
Fundort: Cruzeiro mine, São José da Safira, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brasilien (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Größe: 5.6 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm.
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://www.mindat.org/photo-262341.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
Alternative names
Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus
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