Elbaite, Quartz, Albite
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan, Afghanistan
TOURMALINE var. Elbaite with Quartz and Cleavelandite, Pavrok, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. A lustrous, trigonal, 7 cm tourmaline crystal laying across a mound of well formed cleavelandite. The cleavelandite is, in turn, on the side of a well formed quartz crystal. The tourmaline is bright pink with a thin grass-green band at the pedion ...
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