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T61-34HBeryl (Var: Aquamarine) Be3Al2Si6O18
Aquamarine Crystal in matrix-piece is 8 inches tall, 11 inches wide and 8 inches thick...This old prospect pit in PHIPPSBERG, Maine yielded blue, green and yellow gem quality Beryl crystals and many variations like twisted,tapered, multiple layering, some blue or green at one end and yellow at the other. no pockets ever found after 20 years of hand chiseling and jackhammering but the narrow 3 foot wide vein of pegmatite with it's center 12 inch wide gem bearing zone yielded many a nice crystal. Almandine Garnets, the largest found was about 2 inches have been found there as well as a mineral I've yet had verified which is tiny brownish trapezoidal metallic crystals that when embedded into a beryl will make it yellow and be blue or green 3 inches away. I would guess it's autinite as we have found many "autinite eye's" in the large masses of feldspar.
