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Elbaite With Foitite

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Elbaite With Foitite

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Description
Locality: 
Letpanhla, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Weight: 
116.00gr
Description

Dramatic specimen hosting over a dozen reddish-purple elbaite crystals perched upon a pegmatitic matrix.

Elbaite most times is gemmy, very lustrous and terminates with dark spiky foitite. A couple of main crystals even display a double termination - pyramidal, non foititic - and this makes this specimen truly desirable.

One of the best I have got a hold of from Myanmar, this is an over 20 years old specimen, which I obtained from an experienced, now no longer active Italian collector.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Elbaite

Formula: 
Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fonte del Prete, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

Foitite

Formula: 
(□,Na)(Fe2+2Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3OH
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
California, USA

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