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| Comments: | In 1904, the world's largest elbaite crystal record was held by Mount Mica Quarry and the specimen was illustrated by Bastin (1911). |
| Habit: | Prismatic crystals showing a variety of terminations: pedion, trigonal pyramidid, and occasionally a ditrigonal pyramid. |
| Colour: | Green, Red, Colorless, Blue, may be concentrically zoned in "watermelon" style or longitudinally color zoned. |
| UV Fluorescence: | Pink crystals sometimes fluoresce weakly to moderately in SW |
| Quality of samples: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
| Rarity at site: | Common |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Wet Chemical
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| References |
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| References: | King, V. T. and Foord, E. E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine, Descriptive Mineralogy, volume 1, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, USA, pp. 418 + 88 plates. |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Elbaite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (55 photos) |
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