A novelty at Munich 2017. Parallel growths of 'lepidolite' crystals, pseudomorphous after Elbaite, with good terminations. They are bright, with an intense pink color, with channels and other dissolution forms and with transparent Elbaite (verdelite variety) crystals on the upper end that seem to be a later Elbaite generation. This sample has been photographed and published as a novelty in Munich 2017 in the magazine Le Règne Minéral number 138, page 39, the magazine "Lapis" number 12/2017, page 43 and the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ on page 69 of number 1/2018
Naipa Mine, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province Mozambique (07/2017)
Specimen size: 15.4 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 6.06” × 1.97” × 1.85”
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