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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM


Childrenite with Roscherite

Childrenite with Quartz
Childrenite with Quartz.
 

TL26K9: Prismatic crystals with well defined faces and edges, with perfect terminations, on a group of Quartz crystals.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.85” × 0.98” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.51” × 0.16”

With analysis copy
Childrenite with Roscherite
 

EP36I1: The crystals are prismatic, thin, transparent and bright. Some of them are doubly terminated. Due to their color and luster they have a strong contrast with the crystalline Quartz matrix. The analysis confirms it is Childrenite. Roscherite, also analyzed, is present as very small crystals covering the Childrenite.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 2.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.13” × 0.91” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.28” × 0.08”

Childrenite with Roscherite. Front
Front
Childrenite with Roscherite. Side
Side
Childrenite with Roscherite.
Childrenite with Roscherite
Childrenite with Roscherite. Childrenite with Roscherite.
 

EX96I1: The crystals are prismatic, thin, transparent and bright. Some of them are doubly terminated. Due to theirt is color and luster they have a strong contrast with the matrix of Quartz, Albite and Muscovite. The analysis confirms it is Childrenite. Roscherite, also analyzed, is present as very small crystals covering the Childrenite.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.9 × 2.8 cm = 2.13” × 1.93” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.08”

Childrenite with Roscherite and Orthoclase
 

MG63T6: Aggregate of very elongated crystals of Childrenite with very sharp faces and edges, partially coated by Roscherite, in an Orthoclase matrix. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 2.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.16”

Childrenite with Roscherite and Orthoclase. Childrenite with Roscherite and Orthoclase.
Childrenite with Roscherite, Quartz and Albite
Childrenite with Roscherite, Quartz and Albite. Childrenite with Roscherite, Quartz and Albite.
 

MD11T6: Aggregate of very elongated crystals of Childrenite with very sharp faces and edges, partially coated by Roscherite. In a Quartz matrix with Albite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.8 × 3.1 cm = 2.44” × 1.89” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.12”

Childrenite with Roscherite and Quartz
 

MC48AM7: Prismatic Childrenite crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated, translucent, lustrous, with spheroidal Roscherite growths on a Quartz matrix. We will send the buyer a copy of the Childrenite and Roscherite analyses.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 2.32” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

Childrenite with Roscherite and Quartz. Childrenite with Roscherite and Quartz.
Childrenite with Roscherite
Childrenite with Roscherite. Childrenite with Roscherite.
 

ET87I1: The crystals are prismatic, and quite thick. Some of them are doubly terminated. Due to their color and luster they have a strong contrast with the matrix of Feldspar. The analysis confirms it is Childrenite. Roscherite, also analyzed, is present as very small crystals covering the Childrenite.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.8 × 5 cm = 3.86” × 2.68” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.16”


Elbaite (Tourmaline Group)

Elbaite with Mica ('lepidolite')

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MR26AL2: Crystal with very well defined faces and edges, with perfect termination, clear and much richer in crystalline forms than usual. The crystal, transparent and with very good luster, is polychrome, with two very marked color zones, red at the base and green at the terminal zone, and is partially covered with small 'lepidolite' crystals. A beauty.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 0.79” × 0.79”

Elbaite with Mica ('lepidolite'). Front
Front
Elbaite with Mica ('lepidolite'). Side
Side
Elbaite with Mica ('lepidolite'). Side
Side
Elbaite with Mica ('lepidolite'). Top
Top
Elbaite
Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Rear
Rear
 

TQ26Q6: Very bright and transparent crystal of very well defined faces and edges and an excellent rhombohedral termination. The color is uniform green with neat bluish shades.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 1.54” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Elbaite with 'lepidolite'
 

TX87Q1: Group of transparent crystals of excellent luster and color, very deep and uniform. Most of the crystals have acute terminations rich in faces. They are with small mauve crystals of 'lepidolite'
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.34” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.2 cm = 1.65” × 0.47”

Elbaite with 'lepidolite'. Front
Front
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'. Top
Top
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'. Elbaite with 'lepidolite'.
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'  

TE28: Thick Elbaite crystal recrystallized on its bottom and with another Elbaite crystal crossing it. Minor 'lepidolite' is associated with it. The feature of this specimen is its unusual blue tip.
An original label from the collector Steve Smale will be provided to the customer.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6 × 3 × 2.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.18” × 1.10”

Elbaite with Albite
 

MD13P4: Very aerial and esthetic group of three transparent crystals of a color between green and blue and with small crystals of Albite. In very good condition, all terminations are complete except one which is fixed to the metacrylate base.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (1995)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 4.3 × 1.6 cm = 2.72” × 1.69” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 6 × 0.7 cm = 2.36” × 0.28”

Elbaite with Albite. Front
Front
Elbaite with Albite. Rear
Rear
Elbaite with twinned Hydroxylherderite
Elbaite with twinned Hydroxylherderite. Front
Front
Elbaite with twinned Hydroxylherderite. Light behind
Light behind
Elbaite with twinned Hydroxylherderite.
 

EG49AK8: Doubly terminated floater polychrome Elbaite crystal, transparent and lustrous, more blue in the center of the crystal and green at the ends, together with a sharp Hydroxylherderite crystal.
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.5 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 2.56” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Elbaite with Mica 'lepidolite'
 

EF89AM4: Sharp Elbaite crystal with parallel growths and a sharp pinacoidal termination. Translucent, with good luster and an intense green color, on a matrix of Albite with 'lepidolite' Mica.
The specimen is from the Peter Rosewarne collection (number Rc550), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Urubu Mine, Monte Belo, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.7 × 4.5 cm = 2.95” × 2.64” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.61” × 0.71”

Former collection of Peter Rosewarne
Elbaite with Mica 'lepidolite'. Front
Front
Elbaite with Mica 'lepidolite'. Side
Side
Elbaite with Mica 'lepidolite'.
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'. Front
Front
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'. Rear
Rear
 

MF30AL5: Elongated Elbaite crystal with polycrystalline terminations, transparent, bright, deep bluish green and with small coatings of lamellar 'lepidolite' crystals at the base and on the terminations.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.6 × 1 × 1 cm = 2.99” × 0.39” × 0.39”

Elbaite (variety verdelite)
 

MT67AL6: Prismatic crystal of Elbaíte (verdelite variety), extraordinarily flat, with very well defined faces and edges of the prism and excellent terminal faces. Transparent, shiny, and with a very intense green color.
Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 8.5 × 1.8 × 0.5 cm = 3.35” × 0.71” × 0.20”

Elbaite (variety verdelite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety verdelite). Rear
Rear
Elbaite
Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Rear
Rear
Elbaite. Rear
Rear
 

TK26Q6: The piece is as esthetic as mineralogically interesting. Elongated, with very well defined faces and edges and green color with bluish areas on its intermediate zone. Its termination is sharp and complete, formed by the flat face of the pinacoid and the faces of a rhombohedron. In its lower termination the crystal is partially hollowed and has acicular growths of the same Elbaite and furthermore it is joined on its back to a skeletal wall of a second crystal, also with acicular growths.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 3.39” × 1.30” × 0.91”

Elbaite
Elbaite  

MT54AI8: A crystal with two very different terminations, one of them with excellent terminal pyramidal faces and the other has a hoppered acicular polycrystalline growth and small Feldspar crystals. It is transparent and bright and with a very intense green color.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 3.54” × 0.87” × 0.79”

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Rear
Rear
Elbaite. Top
Top
Elbaite
Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Light behind / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Light behind / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Elbaite. Side
Side
Elbaite. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EF46AM5: Group of Elbaite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and with geometric color zoning. The main crystal is complete and several of the secondary ones show the typical pegmatite formation fractures. This piece comes from the Peter Rosewarne collection (number Rc560) whose label we will send to the buyer.

Cruzeiro Mine, Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5.6 × 5 cm = 3.66” × 2.20” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 8.1 × 2 cm = 3.19” × 0.79”

Former collection of Peter Rosewarne
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ETB16AN7: A bundle of Elbaite crystals, translucent, with bright luster and a deep green color, on a matrix of transparent Albite crystals. Very aesthetic.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.5 × 5 cm = 3.70” × 2.56” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.3 cm = 2.76” × 0.91”

Albite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite). Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite).
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite) and 'lepidolite'
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite) and 'lepidolite'. Front
Front
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite) and 'lepidolite'. Rear / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Foto: Joaquim Callén

Recorded under neon light
 

ETL86CDD: Good color and transparency with a small white rosette of Albite (cleavelandite variety) and 'lepidolite' crystals forming a base for the Elbaite, enhancing its elegance. There are two more Albite plates at the upper termination of the Elbaite, giving it a peculiar appearance.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 12.4 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 4.88” × 1.30” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 12.4 × 1.4 cm = 4.88” × 0.55”

Elbaite with Quartz
 

TJ68D8: Great crystal of twin color Tourmaline (Elbaite) which stands upright on the lightly smoky Quartz. As often happens with pegmatite minerals, the bottom of the Elbaite and Quartz shows a natural fracture that was then healed. So while one cannot call it doubly terminated it is not broken either. Great esthetics.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (1999)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4 × 3.8 cm = 2.91” × 1.57” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.46” × 0.47”

Elbaite with Quartz. Elbaite with Quartz.
Sceptered Elbaite (indicolite)
Sceptered Elbaite (indicolite). Front
Front
Sceptered Elbaite (indicolite). Rear
Rear
 

TE66H3: Scepter growth of a double parallel prism with a complex termination with rhombohedral faces. Its color is extraordinary, deep blue without green shades, so common in this type of crystal.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2005)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.71” × 0.55”

Elbaite (variety verdelite) on smoky Quartz
 

TP66H3: Two prismatic crystals, one of them doubly terminated, with excellent color and luster on a crystal of doubly terminated Quartz and the presence of minor Albite.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 68
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2004-2006)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.85” × 0.87” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.28”

Elbaite (variety verdelite) on smoky Quartz. Front
Front
Elbaite (variety verdelite) on smoky Quartz. Side
Side
Elbaite (variety verdelite)
Elbaite (variety verdelite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety verdelite). Side
Side
Elbaite (variety verdelite). Top
Top
 

TM49K1: The crystal has an excellent, deep and very uniform color and extraordinary transparency. Its termination, very rich in faces, has a small coverage of an unidentified silicate.
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 2.91” × 0.39” × 0.31”

Elbaite with 'lepidolite' and Feldspar
 

TR87J3: This specimen is especially esthetic. The prismatic crystals of very well defined faces and edges, of deep green color and extraordinary luster, are with doubly terminated 'lepidolite' crystals and they strongly contrast with the matrix of Feldspar (probably Orthoclase).
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7 × 3.6 cm = 4.25” × 2.76” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.20”

Elbaite with 'lepidolite' and Feldspar. Front
Front
Elbaite with 'lepidolite' and Feldspar. Top
Top
Doubly terminated Elbaite
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Top
Top
 

TP97J5: The crystal is partially doubly terminated. One of its terminations has the bright and very well defined face of the pedion, meanwhile the faces of the opposite termination are clearly rhombohedral. The central zone of this termination is rough due to a contact.
Do Boqueirão Mine, Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2002)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.60” × 1.22” × 1.22”

Elbaite (variety rubellite)
 

TF96J5: Group of curious aspect because it is formed by very short prisms in which the triangular terminal form is dominant. Its color is very intense.
Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2007)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 1.4 cm = 1.50” × 1.34” × 0.55”

Elbaite (variety rubellite).
Elbaite
Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Top
Top
 

MX66M8: The crystal has a recrystallized termination while the other is complete. It has uniform green color, a good transparency and it is partially coated by small crystals of the variety Rubellite.
Cruzeiro Mine, Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 1.89” × 0.67” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 4..4 × 0.9 cm = 1.57” × 0.35”

Elbaite
 

MT73N4: A curious growth in which the crystals, with a marked zonation of color, start successively one after one. The two most well-defined crystals are perfectly doubly terminated and show two different terminations, one with a flat pedion and the other with a pyramid. It is not repaired or reinforced and appears as Nature and the pegmatites made it.
Cruzeiro Mine, Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 13 × 5.5 ×  3.2 cm = 5.12” × 2.17” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 11.7 × 1.7 cm = 4.61” × 0.67”

Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Side
Side
Elbaite.
Elbaite (variety indicolite) with 'lepidolite' and Quartz
Elbaite (variety indicolite) with 'lepidolite' and Quartz. Front
Front
Elbaite (variety indicolite) with 'lepidolite' and Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

TE37J3: Prismatic crystal of very well defined faces and edges, both on the prism and on the pinacoidal termination. The crystal has a rich blue-green color and a considerable transparency (under intense light) and it is partially covered by 'lepidolite' and Quartz crystals.
Cruzeiro Mine, Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.6 × 2.3 × 2.7 cm = 2.20” × 0.91” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 1.6 cm = 2.20” × 0.63”

Elbaite (variety indicolite)
Elbaite (variety indicolite)  

TJ10AE9: Single Elbaite crystal with flattened forms and very well defined parallel growths. The crystal, partially coated by Muscovite, is translucent, with an intense and uniform blue color on the prism faces and is greenish yellow on terminal faces. Very unusual.
It is with the labels of Hamel Mining & Minerals and Scott Williams Mineral Company, that we’ll send to the buyer.
Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 2.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.77” × 0.87”

Elbaite (variety indicolite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety indicolite). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (variety indicolite). Light behind
Light behind
Elbaite (variety indicolite). Top
Top
Elbaite (variety indicolite)
Elbaite (variety indicolite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety indicolite). Light behind
Light behind
 

ER67AC9: Very aerial aggregate of prismatic crystals, most of them doubly terminated, bright, translucent and with a very deep blue color, with geometric growths.
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.83” × 2.05” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 6 × 0.6 cm = 2.36” × 0.24”

Elbaite (variety indicolite) with Fluorapatite
 

VC29Y9: A crystal with simple forms including the very well-marked curved trigonal prism and smooth pinacoidal termination. It has a very intense, uniform and deep blue color, masked by the crystal's thickness but easily visible with an intense light.
Minas Gerais  Brazil (±1973)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 3 × 2.5 cm = 3.31” × 1.18” × 0.98”

Former collection of A. Mayor

Fluorapatite fluorescent long & short UV
Elbaite (variety indicolite) with Fluorapatite. Front
Front
Elbaite (variety indicolite) with Fluorapatite.
Elbaite (variety indicolite) with Fluorapatite. Light behind
Light behind
Elbaite (variety indicolite) with Fluorapatite. Light behind
Light behind
Elbaite
Elbaite.
 

MM13P8: Deeply striated crystals with very well defined rhombohedral terminations. This feature gives the group a distinct velvet luster and an attractive clear greenish color. The sample is from Pirineus Mine, currently closed.
Lavra Pirineus, Monte Belo, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (±1995)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.14” × 0.91”

Elbaite
 

TH16J3: Prismatic crystal, very transparent, bright and blue with green shades. Its faces and edges are very well defined, especially on terminations with a zone deeper colored.
Lavra Pirineus, Monte Belo, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.3 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 2.09” × 0.35” × 0.28”

Elbaite.
Elbaite
Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Rear
Rear
 

TK67J5: Group of two prismatic crystals, one of them doubly terminated and having one of the terminations unusually acute for the species. The color is very deep and its transparency is very good.
Lavra Pirineus, Monte Belo, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.9 × 1.3 × 0.7 cm = 2.32” × 0.51” × 0.28”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 0.6 cm = 2.05” × 0.24”

Elbaite (variety rubellite)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NTM69AO7: Crystal of Elbaite with a prismatic habit, with simple shapes on the prism and excellent terminations with two rhombohedral forms. Between translucent and transparent, with very good luster and vivid color (rubellite variety), more intense on the terminations, and with small white crystallizations of Albite at the base of the tourmaline crystal.
The specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 872), whose label
we will send to the buyer.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.39” × 0.35”

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Top
Top
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (variety rubellite)
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TXM98AP9: Transparent Elbaite crystal with excellent termination, transparent, with great luster and an intense red-pink color along the prism and green tones on the termination.
São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.39” × 0.31”

Weight: 4.1 grams
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with 'lepidolite'
 

MB67AI8: Elbaite crystal (rubellite variety) with excellent terminal faces, transparent and bright with an intense and uniform color. On matrix with leafy 'lepidolite' growths. It is from the famous 'Jonas pocket'
Jonas pocket, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.94” × 0.43” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.12”

Elbaite (variety rubellite) with 'lepidolite'. Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with 'lepidolite'. Rear
Rear
Elbaite (variety rubellite)
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Top
Top

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TXL37AP8: Elbaite crystal (rubellite variety) with excellent terminations, transparent, with good luster and a color between red and pink.
Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.5 × 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.31” × 0.31”

Elbaite (variety rubellite)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TMR74AP9: Transparent Elbaite crystal with excellent termination, transparent, with great luster and an intense and uniform red (burgundy) color throughout the crystal.
São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 1.57” × 0.39” × 0.35”

Weight: 6 grams
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Top
Top
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Rear / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Mica
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Mica. Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Mica. Rear
Rear
 

TA77H3: A curious and interesting sample not easy to define. A close study reveals a multiple prismatic growth forming a scepter. Color is very deep and luster is very good.
Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 1.42” × 0.98”

Elbaite (variety rubellite)

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TXM51AP8: Two Elbaite crystals (rubellite variety), one of them clearly dominant, with very smooth pinacoidal termination, transparent, lustrous, and with the intensity of color and excellent quality that distinguishes specimens from this find.
Jonas pocket, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.8 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 1.89” × 0.51” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 0.9 cm = 1.89” × 0.35”

Elbaite (variety rubellite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Top
Top
Elbaite (variedad rubellite) with doubly terminated Quartz
Elbaite (variedad rubellite) with doubly terminated Quartz. Elbaite (variedad rubellite) with doubly terminated Quartz.
Elbaite (variedad rubellite) with doubly terminated Quartz. Elbaite (variedad rubellite) with doubly terminated Quartz.
 

AH92P1: Very well defined Elbaite (Rubellite) crystal, not thick, with good uniform color, transparency and luster. The crystal grew implanted on a doubly terminated curious crystal of Quartz. The upper termination of the Elbaite crystal is recrystallized and the termination below is broken.
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2007)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.1 × 1.7 cm = 2.44” × 1.22” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.77” × 0.43”

Former collection of Josep Amigó (Silvane)
Elbaite (variety rubellite)

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NRT96AO4: Parallel growth of two elongated Elbaite crystals with excellent pinacoidal and finely polycrystalline terminations. Translucent, lustrous and deep red, almost mauve (rubellite variety), especially concentrated in the terminations.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (±2000)

Specimen size: 9 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 3.54” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 8.2 × 8 cm = 3.23” × 3.15”

Weight: 88.2 grams
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Top
Top
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz and Albite
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz and Albite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz and Albite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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MBB98CD2: Isolated crystal of Elbaite (rubellite variety) with very defined crystal shapes and excellent terminal faces. Between transparent and translucent, it is shiny and implanted in a translucent Quartz crystal with leafy Albite crystals at the base.
Its rear termination is recrystallized, similar to the other small crystal implanted in Quartz.
A beauty that reminds us of how creative Nature can be.
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.7 × 7.3 cm = 3.74” × 3.03” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 0.9 cm = 2.28” × 0.35”

Elbaite (variety verdelite) with Quartz
 

TH46AK5: A very free-standing crystal of Elbaite (verdelite variety) on Quartz matrix, with excellent termination, transparent, very bright and green with zoning of different
The specimen will be sent mounted in the original Perky box from the Bob Noble collection, which also contains the label that says Bob bought it in 1997 in Tucson from the Sullivan collection.
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.71” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.4 cm = 1.18” × 0.16”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Elbaite (variety verdelite) with Quartz. Elbaite (variety verdelite) with Quartz.
Elbaite "Watermelon"
Elbaite "Watermelon".
 

TE49F3: A prismatic crystal typical of Santa Rosa, with notable transparency and brilliance. This makes the contrast between the red interior and green exterior more notable. A classic that is now hard to find.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 61
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (±1980)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 0.9 × 1 cm = 1.89” × 0.35” × 0.39”

Elbaite (paraíba)
 

EA56P5: Excellent crystallization for this variety, well known as "Paraiba" in gemology, whose characteristic is that it is almost unknown in complete crystals. For that reason, this piece must be considered as very unusual. The crystal is a doubly terminated floater, with two different terminations, one of them is acute and the opposite is flattened. Color and transparency are very good.
São José da Batalha, Paraíba  Brazil

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.16” × 0.12”

Elbaite (paraíba). Front
Front
Elbaite (paraíba). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (paraíba)
Elbaite (paraíba). Front
Front
Elbaite (paraíba). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (paraíba). Top
Top
 

EP47P3: Excellent crystallization for this variety, well known as "Paraíba" in gemology, whose characteristic is that it is almost unknown in defined crystals. For that reason, the piece must be considered as very unusual. The sample is an irregular prismatic crystal with a neat pinacoidal termination, transparent, bright and of excellent color. This variety is rare in collections because most of the crystals have been faceted as gems.
São José da Batalha, Paraíba  Brazil

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.20” × 0.16”

Elbaite (paraíba)
 

EJ68P3: Excellent crystallization for this variety, well known as "Paraíba" in gemology, whose characteristic is that it is almost unknown in defined crystals. For that reason, the piece must be considered as very unusual. The sample is a doubly terminated floater crystal with very acute terminations of very well defined faces, transparent and with an excellent color. This variety is rare in collections because most of the crystals have been faceted as gems.
São José da Batalha, Paraíba  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.16” × 0.12”

Elbaite (paraíba). Front
Front
Elbaite (paraíba). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (paraíba)
Elbaite (paraíba). Front
Front
Elbaite (paraíba). Rear
Rear
Elbaite (paraíba). Top
Top
 

EM88P5: Excellent crystallization for this variety, well known as "Paraiba" in gemology, which characteristic is that it is almost unknown in defined crystals. For that reason, the piece must be considered as very unusual. Doubly terminated floater crystal, the prism is progressively thicker and both terminations have a very pronounced curvature. Color and transparency are very good.
São José da Batalha, Paraíba  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.6 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 1.02” × 0.12” × 0.12”


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