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Kunzite

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Kunzite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Urucum Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 1.7 × 1.1 cm
Weight: 
17.00gr
Description

Superb lustrous crystal of kunzite spodumene, absolutely floater and free of damages. It is coloured pink with beautiful etching and re-growth patters, typical from this Brazilian locality, the Urucum pegmatite. Intense reddish-orange fluorescence under long UV.

Acquired in 1979 by Georges Vanacker* (specimen VIII/3/190) from Möckel Mineralien.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

 

*Vanackerite from Tsumeb was named after him.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kunzite

Variety Of: 

Spodumene

Formula: 
LiAlSi2O6
Strunz: 
9.DA.30
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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