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Staurolite crystals showing the typical cross-shaped twin with well defined faces and edges, doubly terminated, with a deep brown color highlighting the contrast with the whitish mica-schist matrix. Specimens of Staurolite from this locality in most cases exhibit cross-shaped twins at 90 or 120 degrees, as is the case here, there being few specimens of non-twinned crystals.
Semiostrov'e, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region Russia
Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.0 × 1.4 cm = 1.54” × 1.18” × 0.55”

10ED58: Staurolite

22TTX12: Staurolite

Single crystal of Staurolite from a classic Russian locality for this mineral species, with sharp crystal forms and with a well marked mold left by a now disappeared crystal of the same species but which perfectly displays the iron cross twinning. The specimen comes from the old collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon.
Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region Russia
Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.30” × 0.87” × 0.59”

21CXX11: Staurolite

Elongated, doubly terminated prismatic Staurolite crystal with well-defined faces and edges of deep dark colors and with some Muscovite on the crystal terminations. This floater specimen, of high quality for the deposit, a Spanish classic. It comes from the Carles Curto collection of duplicates (number 1971.12), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Montejo de la Sierra, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid Spain
Specimen size: 5.0 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.97” × 0.67” × 0.47”

MX53AE6: Staurolite with Almandine

Very elongated Staurolite crystals with dodecahedral Almandine crystals all on a leafy Muscovite matrix. The crystals are untwined, which is very unusual, and are very bright with a very deep brown color. Among the best from the locality.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2017, page 82, in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 347 in the volume 93, number 4, Jul/Aug 2018, and in the book "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" (page 401)
Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region Russia (±2000)
Specimen size: 17.8 × 12.2 × 3.2 cm = 7.01” × 4.80” × 1.26”

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