Mineral: Elbaite with 'lepidolite'
Locality: Aricanga Mine, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dimensions: 40 x 23 x 13.5 cm / main crystal: 16 cm.

Description: "Chameleon Pocket", Mina Aricanga, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brésil Mass: 5650 g MIM number: 2223 Large plate made up of a compact mixture of lepidolite and tourmaline on which about sixty transparent and shiny crystals of elbaite with perfect and brilliant terminations have developed: red for the lower part with a flat termination, and green for the upper part with pointed trigonal termination. It is unusual to have the two types of terminations on the same sample. This spectacular ensemble is the major piece of this discovery. Photographer: FMI / Joe Budd

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