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Fakes & FraudsVorobyevite -- Pakistan -- do they exist?
29th Nov 2016 17:06 UTCScott Rider
Basically, if it is not Vorobyevite, what is it? Oddly shaped Aquamarine?
Here is a link to an example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/176-GM-Rare-VOROBEYEVITE-BERYL-Rosterite-transparent-crystals-on-matrix-AFG-/162263749746?hash=item25c7ac5472:g:O-8AAOSw5cNYF23B
I was going to try winning some auctions that have these crystals, but I want to wait now... I definitely wasn't planning on buying that $1,600 piece!!!
29th Nov 2016 17:09 UTCScott Rider
29th Nov 2016 17:19 UTCWayne Corwin
29th Nov 2016 20:47 UTCSteve Hardinger 🌟 Expert
An ebay search for 'vorobyevite' gives forty hits, so (assuming they really are 'vorobyevite') they can't be all that rare.
29th Nov 2016 21:50 UTCMark Heintzelman 🌟 Expert
Jolyon & Katya Ralph Wrote:
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> Various analysis saying no significant Cs detected
> means that it cannot possibly be "Cs-rich" beryl
> as was described.
>
> I agree that the name should not be used for this
> material and I will revert it to 'beryl' on all
> samples from this locality.
>
> Jolyon
A name used to merely to enhance their value, not an apt descriptor for these morphologically interesting beryls from this occurrence.
MRH
29th Nov 2016 22:05 UTCJosé Zendrera 🌟 Manager
Hingganite and Vorobyevite - Raman reference spectra request
Deo Darrah, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
29th Nov 2016 23:23 UTCScott Rider
I did a search in Mindat and didn't get any results for this discussion, so I must have been misspelling things!!! :-S
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