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M8010 - Elbaite with Quartz - $7500 
Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil  
Overall Size: 16.5 x 11 cm 
E-mail: andy@andyseibel.com 

Magnificent well placed glassy transparent rich deep wine-red prismatic tourmaline of 4 cm in length pierces through a 
doubly-terminated colorless quartz of 7.5 x 6.3 cm in size which sits very well upon a crystallized bed of shiny lepidolite 
matrix measuring a large 16.5 x 11 cm in overall size. This specimen has the right dimensions, many times in larger 
pieces the proportions are off and not as aesthetic at least in modern times this is the case and how value is judged, so 
here you have a rock with all the criteria one looks for including quality and color. The photograph at the bottom is just 
about its actual size. Truly exceptional worthy of any museum collection as specimens of such magnitude are hard to 
obtain, no damage. 










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