Description
Beautiful centimetric crystals (up to 1.9 cm) of rubellite, a pink to mauve variety of tourmaline in a finely crystallized gray gangue of lepidolite.
Minerals from the Stewart Lithia Mine, Pala mining district, San Diego region, California, USA.
The interest of this sample is mainly historical, as it is supplied with its old label from the Royal Academy of Mineralogy in Freiberg (“K. S. Mineralien – Niederlage zu Freiberg”), Germany.
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