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PostPosted: Jul 29, 2012 10:16    Post subject: Exceptional finds  

Here are a few images of an extremely course pegmatite mineralization from the Sapo mine in Brazil.


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1.5 meters. The muscovite and albite form protruding from the larger feldspar crystal is an alteration product of a large kunzite crystal formerly occupying that space.
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The arms are for scale. Albite and quartz.
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37 cm. high half-pipe of albite, mucovite and quartz from the feldspar of image 0548.
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PostPosted: Jul 30, 2012 11:22    Post subject: Re: Exceptional finds  

Wow, quite awesome specimens, thank you! I will not be surprised if we perhaps get to see these in person somewhere in Tucson next February.
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