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Alkali-beryl from
Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

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Alkali-beryl, etc.

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl, etc.

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl, etc.

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl, etc.

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl, etc.

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl, etc.

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl

Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Locality type:

Mine

Classification

Species:

Beryl var: Alkali-beryl

Formula:

Be₃Al₂(Si₆O₁₈)

Comments:

Analysis in 2015 by Anatoly Kasatkin found required Cs was below detection limits. See: http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,9,351661,351661,quote=1

This means that there are no Cs beryls here, but there is alkali containing beryl. From the above message thread,"an email from Dr. Pezzotta and Rob Lavinsky from the 2012 finds in Deo Darrah... and
Pezzotta mentioned detecting the alkali metal elements Na and K, but not notable Cs in the
periphery of the crystals." The 2015 results debunk the vorobyevite claim but do not mention any other alkali metals.

Habit:

Tabular hexagons, shorted c-axis

Colour:

blue

Confirmation

Validity:

Confirmed

Confirmation Methods:

EPMA

Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:

Elbaite

11 photos of Alkali-beryl associated with Elbaite at this locality.

Tourmaline

ⓘ9 photos of Alkali-beryl associated with Tourmaline at this locality.

Smoky Quartz

6 photos of Alkali-beryl associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.

Limonite

6 photos of Alkali-beryl associated with Limonite at this locality.

Quartz

ⓘ4 photos of Alkali-beryl associated with Quartz at this locality.

Feldspar Group

1 photo of Alkali-beryl associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.

Lepidolite

1 photo of Alkali-beryl associated with Lepidolite at this locality.

Albite

1 photo of Alkali-beryl associated with Albite at this locality.

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

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Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

927950

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:927950:6

GUID (UUID V4):

1f63340a-0778-4a07-8175-96adbc04ff57

References

Rob Lavinsky coll. analized by Federico Pezzota

Anatoly Kasatkin, newer analysis in 2015

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Alkali-beryl from Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Alkali-beryl from
Deo Darrah, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan