 | | Journal (issue) | | at www. MineralogicalRecord.com v Front cover: Elbaite crystal with color zoning, 5.1 cm, from Rubaya...Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lower left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from...Andrea Bartorelli: Minerals and Precious Stones of Brazil. Other important references (if any) for individual...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...Morganite beryl, 7.5 cm, from near Araçuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The find predates the discovery of morganite |  | | Report (issue) | | Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F Fluor-elbaite Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group: 3m. Prismatic...Powder Pattern: Cruzeiro mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2.568 (100), 2.939 (92), 3.447...63 100.25 (1) Cruzeiro mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; average of 10 electron microprobe...Polymorphism & Series: Solid-solution exists with elbaite and tsilaisite. Mineral Group: Tourmaline supergroup...mine, São José da Safira and the Urubu mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Name: As an elbaite with dominant |  | | Catalog/List | | images and bid online, visit HA.com/6150 73005 ELBAITE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State,...com/6150 73008 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam This unusual Elbaite is a fan shaped...Sunday, June 7, 2015 | 12:00 PM CT 15 73009 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam...Estimate: $6,000-$8,000 Starting Bid: $3,000 73011 ELBAITE Hyakule, Sankhuwasabha District, Kosi Zone, Nepal...Tourmaline family: Elbaite. Compared to the output of place such as Afghanistan or Brazil, the production |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | microcline crystals, 35 × 45 cm, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Adalberto Giazotto photo. Figure 6...green elbaite crystals, 35 × 15 cm, Pederneira mine, São José de Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Adalberto...beryl, 23 × 18 cm, Corrégo do Urucum mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Jeff Scovil photo. 96*2: 405,9(3:...participation Figure 18 (right). A huge crystal of blue elbaite (indicolite variety) on a matrix of quartz, lepidolite...× 40 × 35 cm, Pederneira mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Adalberto Giazotto photo. Figure |  | | Journal (issue) | | kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler collection; Holly Smith...Topaz, 15 cm, from Hematita, Antonio Dias, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Tom Spann photo. (below right) Spinel... Aquamarine, 9 cm, from Corrego São Francisco, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Tom Spann photo. Rhodochrosite on...9 mm, Poaia pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Beth Van Allen photo. 24 Elbaite tourmaline with quartz...quartz, 3.7 cm, Pederneira mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Supplement to The Mineralogical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 6 cm, from Córrego do Urucum, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Raymond McDougall specimen and photos....Morganites from Córrego do Urucum, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil” by Jim Houran and John Rakovan (July/August...partial alteration of the pink cores of a zoned elbaite (see photo). In this example the alteration appears...that pink (rubellite) cores of many color-zoned elbaite (tourmaline) crystals are often dissolved away...zoned elbaite. The specimen is 4 cm across and is from the Cruziero mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Collection of Dr. Schumacher, Germany. Figure 3. Elbaite with Cleavelandite and Lepidolite: [Papruk Mine]...Beryl (variety Heliodor), Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 2002; painted actual size of specimen (8...MINERALS Figure 5. Elbaite on Lepidolite: Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 2007; painted actual...7. Elbaite (variety Rubellite) on Albite, Jonas Mine, Itatiaia District, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais...Gerais, Brazil; 2007; painted actual size of specimen (9.67 × 14.55 cm); watercolor. Collection of Daniel |  | Eeckhout, Sigrid G., Castañeda, Cristiane, Ferreira, Ana Cláudia M., Sabioni, Antônio C.S., de Grave, Eddy, Vasconcelos, Daniela C.L. (2002) Spectroscopic studies of spessartine from Brazilian pegmatites. American Mineralogist, 87 (10) 1297-1306 doi:10.2138/am-2002-1005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Federal, Brazil 4 Department of Mining and Geology, Federal University of Paraíba, Paraíba, Brazil 5 Department...Physics/ICEB, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil 6 Department of Metallurgical and Materials...Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil ABSTRACT Mössbauer spectra (MS)...2001). The Eastern gemological province (NE of Minas Gerais State, Fig. 2) includes two distinct types of...pegmatitic districts are distinguished, e.g., the São José da Safira district and the Conselheiro Pena district |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 2. Elbaite “rocket,” 10.3 cm high, Pederneira mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Wayne...University Library] at 15:45 07 April 2015 Figure 7. Elbaite and quartz, 12.3 cm, Paprook, Kunar, Afghanistan...celestine. 240 ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 11. Elbaite and quartz, 12.7 cm wide, Himalaya mine, San Diego |  | Soares, D. R., Beurlen, H., Barreto, S. d. B., Da Silva, M. R. R., Ferreira, A. C. M. (2008) COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION OF TOURMALINE-GROUP MINERALS IN THE BORBOREMA PEGMATITE PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL. The Canadian Mineralogist, 46 (5) 1097-1116 doi:10.3749/canmin.46.5.1097 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE BORBOREMA PEGMATITE PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL Dwight Rodrigues SOARES§ Centro Federal de Educação...671, 58100-000, Campina Grande, State of Paraíba, Brazil Hartmut BEURLEN Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geociências...State of Pernambuco, Brazil Sandra de Brito BARRETO and Marcelo Reis Rodrigues DA SILVA Departamento de...Ramos s.n., 54740-530, Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil Ana Claudia Mousinho FERREIRA Centro Federal de...671, 58100-000, Campina Grande, State of Paraíba, Brazil Abstract Various species of the tourmaline-group |  | | Report (issue) | | blue; many have movable enhydro bubbles besides. Elbaite with albite, 6.5 cm, from Stak Nala, Skardu district...dealers showed up with top-of-the-line specimens of elbaite with albite recovered in summer 2011 from two large...the province formerly called “Northern Areas”). Elbaite from Stak Nala is distinctive enough that the occurrence...millennium, production had almost ceased. “Stak Nala” elbaite specimens typically show lustrous, lightly striated...Collection (www.yourmineralcollection.com), many fine elbaite/albite specimens, to small-cabinet size, from the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles 708 Coloured Stone Mining and Trade in Brazil: A Brief History and Current Status By Aurélien...Collection V. L. Villani photo p. 758 Cover Photo: Brazil is the source of a variety of coloured stones,...Ku Nam Nam Pai Stream 692 m Strea Aung Nam n Da Pa ream St 23°00' Nam Strea Mit m 96°45' Road...deposits (i.e. elbaite from the Legyi and Kyauktalon pegmatites) and secondary deposits (elbaite and dravite)...ppm) than Ca (930 to 3,080 ppm), consistent with elbaite. The possible presence of rossmanite was not considered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz (3.3 cm tall) from Joaquim Felício, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The kite-shaped terminal face is r, and...trigonal symmetry from Joaquim Felício, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The r faces are kite-shaped, and the small...quartz’s primary growth faces, so quartz, like elbaite and stibnite, forms long prismatic crystals. Quartz...cross-section at the top is triangular. From Minas Gerais, Brazil.” Believing that unrecognized occurrences...oscillator plates, almost all of which came from Brazil (Frondel 1945). A trivial consequence is that some |  | Bosi, F., Andreozzi, G. B., Skogby, H., Lussier, A. J., Abdu, Y., Hawthorne, F. C. (2013) Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup. American Mineralogist, 98 (2) 297-303 doi:10.2138/am.2013.4285 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralogist, Volume 98, pages 297–303, 2013 Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, a new mineral...Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada Abstract Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, is a new...pink beryl in the Cruzeiro and Urubu mines (Minas Gerais, Brazil), and apparently formed from late-stage...sub-conchoidal fracture and white streak. Fluor-elbaite has a Mohs hardness of approximately 7.5, and has...about 3.1 g/cm3. In plane-polarized light, fluor-elbaite is pleochroic (O = green/bluish green, E = pale |  | | Journal (issue) | | epidote deposits of the Capelinha Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil ......................................315...epidote on matrix, 4.4 cm, from Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gail and Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann...w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly invites...EPIDOTE DEPOSITS OF THE CAPELINHA REGION, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL Andrea Bartorelli1 Carlos Cornejo2 Mario...mid-1960s, the Capelinha region in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has become world-famous for producing beautiful |  | De Oliveira, Ester Figueiredo, Castañeda, Cristiane, Eeckhout, Sigrid Griet, Gilmar, Messias Menezes, Kwitko, Rogério Ribeiro, De Grave, Eddy, Botelho, Nilson Francisquini (2002) Infrared and Mössbauer study of Brazilian tourmalines from different geological environments. American Mineralogist, 87 (8) 1154-1163 doi:10.2138/am-2002-8-914 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | N. CP 941 CEP 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil 2 Instituto de Geociências, Universidade...3173 CEP 30140-970, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil 3 Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics...de Ouro Preto, CEP 35400-000 Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil 5 Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, CVRD, BR 262-Km...P.O. Box 09 CEP 33010-970, Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais, Brazil ABSTRACT Infrared (IR) spectra in the OH...and hydrothermal deposits in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. In the magmatic environment, samples of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Li-rich minerals (spodumene and rarely petalite, elbaite-rossmanite, lepidolite), Cs-beryl variety morganite...pegmatites from Maine, California, Afghanistan, and Brazil that were part of this study), contain spodumene...class of Ginsburg ro (1984) and Černý (1991). Elbaite-rossmanite solid solutions, which are common gem-forming...eucryptite (Guttery, 2012). London (2011) proposed that elbaite and re spodumene share the same high-pressure...proximity to the gem-quality and perfect crystals of elbaite, beryl, spodumene, lepidolite, and other euhedral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | single spessartine crystal from Del Norte, Paraíba, Brazil. Bill Larson specimen. Jeff Scovil photo. Manganese...attractive 3-cm spessartine crystal from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Andy Seibel specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...4-cm spessartine from the Navegadora mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Julio Landmann specimen. Jeff Scovil photo...9. Spessartine from the Navegadora mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This 2.6 × 2.4 × 1.2-cm crystal is in the...include pegmatites at Nanuque and Urucum, Minas Gerais; Mina da Caieira near Jardim do Serido, the Pedra |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 14 In this issue … Mineral of the month: Elbaite ........... p. 2 Program: Tourmalines of Maine...EFMLS: Annual convention ................ p. 20 Elbaite Source: Smithsonian Institution. Upcoming events...21 Photo: Chip Clark. Mineral of the Month Elbaite Happy St. Patrick’s Day! by Sue Marcus What’s...Watermelon tourmaline is a particular, informal form of elbaite, our March Mineral of the Month. Northern Virginia...they see elbaite in their mind’s eye, usually as a single red-pink or green crystal. Elbaite is unusual |  | | Journal (issue) | | Branco claim, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Ken Donn photo. Calcite with cuprite (chalcotrichite)...Jesse LaPlante photo. Andradite, 2.5 cm, from Las Minas, Veracruz, Mexico (no. 1085). Acquired in January...Sapo mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Jeff Scovil photo. 38 Supplement to The...biotite schist matrix, 26 cm, from Northern Bahia, Brazil. Jeff Scovil photo. Supplement to The Mineralogical...Ex Steve Smale collection; Jeff Scovil photo. Elbaite with quartz, 7 cm, from Sankhuwasabha district |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Pederneira Mine São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil Dedication This article is the culmination... The Pederneira Mine ▲ ▲ São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil Daniel Trinchillo Fine Minerals...Tallis). Introduction The Pederneira mine in Brazil qualifies as one of the world’s greatest tourmaline...specimen recently recovered at the Pederneira mine in Brazil. It was handed to me by long-time mineral dealer...parents’ home on his way back from a two-month tour of Brazil. The photo knocked my socks off! The dialog went |  | | Journal (issue) | | CRYSTAL CLASSICS Tourmaline | Coronel Murta, Brazil | 5.5 x 3.0 x 1.7 cm orders@crystalclassics.co...p22 Fluorite on Topaz, 9.5 cm Fazenda do Centro, Brazil Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website...Vermelhão (Saramenha) mine, Ouro Preto district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Crystals having the rich orange color are...Corundum (sapphire) Creedite Cuprite Dioptase Elbaite Epidote Fluorapatite Fluorite Galena Garnet group...an extended period of ill health. Figure 12. Elbaite (“rubellite”) tourmaline crystal with albite, 10 |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2019 Articles The Golconda District, Minas Gerais, Brazil ..........................................TOURMALINE, 11.9 cm, from the Golconda I mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Brice Gobin (Mineral Art) and Emanuele Marini...China, South Africa, Namibia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico. His first exchange of specimens with...September–October, 2019 The Golconda District Minas Gerais, Brazil Carlos Cornejo1 Andrea Bartorelli2 Wendell...important specimen-producing districts in all of Brazil. INTRODUCTION The Golconda Pegmatite Field is a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | albite, 16.8 × 16.0 × 14.3 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Joe Budd photo, courtesy of The Arkenstone...morganite with elbaite, 13.8 × 8.0 × 11.7 cm, Pederneira claim, (g) (h) São José da Safira, Doce Valley...Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Joe Budd photo, courtesy of The Arkenstone. (e) Beryl variety morganite, spodumene...October 2013; photo courtesy of Jeff Morris; (b) elbaite in a clay-packed pocket, Havey pegmatite, showing...crystal (lower left, 28 × 20 cm) and topaz on elbaite (lower right, 7 × 4.5 cm). Volume 90, March/April |  | | Journal (issue) | | cm, from the Santa Rosa mine, Itambacuri, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Aquamarine crystal on smoky quartz, 17...Topaz, 8 cm, from Monte Alegre de Goias, Goias, Brazil. Supplement to The Mineralogical Record, September–October...cm, from the Ilha mine, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Aquamarine, 8 cm, from Dassu, RakaposhiHaramosh...Tourmaline, 17 cm, from Virgem da Lapa, Araçuai Pegmatite district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Supplement to The Mineralogical...16 cm, from Amethysta do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (M16.4.8). Ex Arthur Roffey. Supplement to The |
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Pederneira mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil