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adshah
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 Posted: Feb 16, 2012 06:11 Post subject: Yellowgreenish Dravite from Jajarkot village, Nepal |
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dravite
Jajarkot , Nepal
a beautiful piece of greenish dravite |
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adshah
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| Posted: Feb 16, 2012 06:15 Post subject: Re: Yellowgreenish Dravite from Jajarkot village, Nepal |
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yellowgreenish dravite
Jajarkot , Nepal |
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John S. White
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| Posted: Feb 16, 2012 06:34 Post subject: Re: Yellowgreenish Dravite from Jajarkot village, Nepal |
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I have long had a beautiful cut stone of this material labelled Mn-rich elbaite. The color is exactly the same - greenish yellow.
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Riccardo Modanesi
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| Posted: Feb 16, 2012 12:51 Post subject: Re: Yellowgreenish Dravite from Jajarkot village, Nepal |
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Hi to everybody!
I have got too a rough and a cut crystal of yellow dravite. It was called by the commercial nickname "canary tourmaline"! The colour is a nice yellow one, not greenish! This colour described here should be very interesting!
Again about the "canary tourmaline": let's call it "tweety tourmaline" and make a theatre spectacle with a schorlite, which is black like Sylvester Cat!!! Hahahahaha!!!!
Of course I was joking, but I truly have those yellow crystals! They are small because they were expensive, more than 200 € per carat!
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo
| John S. White wrote: | | I have long had a beautiful cut stone of this material labelled Mn-rich elbaite. The color is exactly the same - greenish yellow. |
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Hi! I'm a collector of minerals since 1973 and a gemmologist. On Summer I always visit mines and quarries all over Europe looking for minerals! Ok, there is time to tell you much much more! Greetings from Italy by Riccardo. |
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Jesse Fisher
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| Posted: Feb 16, 2012 13:25 Post subject: Re: Yellowgreenish Dravite from Jajarkot village, Nepal |
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In 1997 I acquired this specimen of dravite in mica schist. The crystals are fairly gemmy and transparent, and of a similar color. Checking on Mindat, I find listings for both "Gujarkot" and "Jajarkot" as locations for dravite with photos of very similar looking specimens. I wonder if this is one location with variant spellings?
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dravite in mica schist
Gujarkot, Bhert Zone, Western Nepal
11x7x3 cm overall size |
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