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Tourmaline, Quartz

Locality: Escondido pegmatite, Conselheiro Pena, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Tourmaline / Quartz (8,2cm x 2,9cm)
Mario Pauwels collection , Jeff Scovil photo

A very fragile but so well balanced specimen of three green gemmy terminated Tourmaline crystals on a fine matrix of two parralel grown and double terminated Quartz crystals. This specimen was collected in august 1996.
This picture has also been featured in the book "Nature's Garden of Crystals" on page 113.

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Photo added: 10th Jul 2008

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