Elbaite with Albite, Lepidolite, Quartz
specimen number:
9506572
location:
Paprok Mine, Kamdesh, Nuristan, Afghanistan
description: Attractive blue to bluish green translucent lustrous terminated crystals of elbaite measuring to 4.0 cm in length across the top of this white albite crystal matrix with purple lepidolite crystals and colorless quartz. A really unusual color that makes this quite pretty.
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