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TX98Z3: Elbaite (variety rubellite)
Parallel growth of crystals with very well-defined faces and edges, perfect terminations, translucent, bright, and with an intense and deep color, red with mauve shades.
Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia (06-07/2013)
Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.38” × 1.02” × 0.94”
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MD37G9: Elbaite (variety rubellite)
The color, with deep mauve tones, is exceptional. Terminal faces consist of two rhombohedrons and they are very well defined and completely transparent.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 22 in number 2006/2.
Mokhovaya pegmatite, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia (2005)
Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.55” × 0.47”
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VC88Y5: Elbaite (variety rubellite)
Single crystal with very well defined faces and edges, with a finely striated prism and a terminal pinacoid with small polycrystalline growths. The sample shows an excellent luster and a good transparency, with a clearer geometric color zoning on the terminal area. The rest of the prism has a very intense and uniform color, with the tone popularly well known as “pink bubble-gum”.
Pala District, San Diego County, California  USA (±1978)
Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.22” × 0.75” × 0.75”
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TD76Y0: Elbaite (variety rubellite)
Botryoidal aggregate, very rare for Elbaite, bright, with an intense and uniform pink color, and on matrix.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.73” × 1.46”
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TM98J3: Elbaite (variety rubellite)
Group of three prismatic crystals, two of them doubly terminated. The definition of faces and edges is excellent, as is the luster, but what stands out especially is the color: very intense, red with mauve shades, and particularly deep at the terminations.
Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia (07-08/2006)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.65” × 0.67” × 0.47”
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TC27E2: Elbaite (variety rubellite) on Calcite
An arborescent Elbaite on Calcite with two colors: pink and deep red. An unusual specimen.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 7 × 3.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.76” × 1.50” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”
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TC88V7: Elbaite (variety rubellite) on Schorl
Polycrystalline aggregates (“mushroom” shaped) of Elbaite (rubellite) with very well developed curvatures on the faces and edges that confer this curious appearance to the aggregate. The crystals have three very different shades of color: pale pink on the prism faces, of fibrous aspect, and the terminal faces that present two different red tones. The growth of Elbaite is coating a crystal of Schorl as a hood.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.4 × 5 cm = 2.17” × 1.73” × 1.97”
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MB67AI8: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with 'lepidolite'
Elbaite crystal (rubellite variety) with excellent terminal faces, transparent and bright with an intense and uniform color. On matrix with leafy 'lepidolite' growths. It is from the famous 'Jonas pocket'
Jonas pocket, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil
Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.94” × 0.43” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.12”
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NR51AL5: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with 'lepidolite'
Two Elbaite crystals (variety rubellite) rich in very well defined terminal faces, transparent, bright, deep red in color and with aggregates of 'lepidolite' crystals at the base. Very elegant.
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan
Specimen size: 6.4 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 2.52” × 0.79” × 0.63”
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TXR89AQ0: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with 'lepidolite' and Albite
Complete doubly terminated floater crystal of Elbaite (variety rubellite), with very marked parallel growth and perfect terminations. Transparent, with good luster, intense pink tones and with coatings of leafy 'lepidolite' crystals and small crystallizations of Albite.
Pala, Pala District, San Diego County, California  USA
Specimen size: 4.5 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 1.77” × 0.51” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 1 cm = 1.77” × 0.39”
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TR1AM5: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Albite
Elbaite crystal with very well-defined faces and edges, lustrous, transparent, and with clear color zoning, intense pink-magenta around the termination. It also shows partial dissolution of later recrystallized Elbaite. Coated with crystallized Albite and on a matrix of platy Albite crystals. Stak Nala is an area located in the western Himalayas, renowned for its zoned granitic pegmatites producing high-quality elbaites (tourmalines), often bi- or tricolored, associated with Albite, Mica, and Quartz. It is one of the world’s most iconic localities for collector-grade tourmalines.
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan
Specimen size: 7 × 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.34” × 1.30”
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MA98AA9: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Albite
Single crystals with very well defined faces and edges, one of them clearly dominant. They are transparent, bright and with a very intense color, with deeper color zoning on the terminations. On Albite matrix, they have better transparency and luster than usual for the samples from this locality.
Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast  Russia
Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.2 × 2.5 cm = 2.09” × 1.65” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1 cm = 0.98” × 0.39”
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RA72J5: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Albite
Crystals composed of striated prism faces and terminated by a rough and poorly defined pedion face. We specially note its very deep color.
Minas Gerais  Brazil
Specimen size: 10.9 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm = 4.29” × 1.26” × 1.14”
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MB14J5: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Calcite
Globular growth, almost botryoidal, uncommon for the species, on Calcite matrix. The color, between red and pink, is enhanced by the magnificent luster.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.4 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.34” × 1.38”
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TZ26Y0: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Calcite
Elbaite polycrystalline growths with a shape well known as “mushroom”, with a very deep and uniform red color and on Calcite matrix.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.91” × 0.87”
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TG76Y0: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Calcite
Elbaite polycrystalline growths with a shape well known as “mushroom”, with a very deep and uniform red color and on Calcite matrix.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 4.5 × 3 × 3.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.18” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”
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TP88E2: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Calcite
Very appealing with a lively color. One of the spheres of Elbaite is not complete (but it is re-crystallized) while the others are.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.65” × 1.10” × 0.83”
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TL50E2: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Calcite and Quartz
In my opinion this is the best small sample from the find. The sphere is large and has lots of color and brilliance. It is also well placed on the matrix of Calcite with some Quartz at the base. To add to that there is a small black Schorl crystal.
A great one: this specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at St Marie 2004’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 35 of number 331. We will send the purchaser a copy of the magazine.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.14” × 0.91”
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EY16AG4: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Feldspar
A lovely group of very aerial crystals, many of them partially or completely doubly terminated, translucent and bright with a pale pink color and intense red terminations and on a feldspar matrix.
Pyingyi Taung, Male, Letpanhla, Singu Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma)
Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.6 × 5.4 cm = 3.07” × 2.60” × 2.13”
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EB1K6: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Feldspar
Translucent crystal of excellent color, very uniform, and perfectly terminated with the pedion and the three faces of the rhombohedron. It is implanted on Feldspar matrix, which is not very usual for the locality.
Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California  USA
Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.8 × 2.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.10” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.06”
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SM540MJ: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Feldspar
Elbaite crystal (variety rubellite) of a very intense, deep and uniform color with remnants of feldspar matrix.
Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia (2018)
Specimen size: 7 × 2.8 × 2 cm cm = 2.76” × 1.10” × 0.79”
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TA77H3: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Mica
A curious and interesting sample not easy to define. A close study reveals a multiple prismatic growth forming a scepter. Color is very deep and luster is very good.
Coronel Murta, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)
Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 1.42” × 0.98”
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EH89AI5: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Mica and Feldspar
Elbaite (rubellite variety) with simple and very well defined faces and edges and a very smooth pinacoidal termination. It is translucent, bright, has a very intense and uniform color and it is with a tiny Feldspar matrix with leafy Mica aggregates.
Mokhovaya pegmatite, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia (±2004)
Specimen size: 7.6 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 2.99” × 0.94” × 0.91”
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TA47AK3: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz
Polycrystalline aggregate of Elbaite (rubellite variety) with a curious morphology known as a "mushroom", translucent, with very deep and uniform color. In a matrix of massive Quartz and with some Quartz crystals partially covering the rubellite.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.20” × 1.26” × 1.22”
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RA36Z4: Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz
Radiating aggregates on a Quartz matrix of bright translucent crystals with an intense pink color. Really an "oldie" from Pala, typical of the end of the 70's.
Pala District, San Diego County, California  USA (±1973)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.3 × 2.8 cm = 2.83” × 2.09” × 1.10”

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