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EJ17H6: Very aerial group of cubic crystals that have very sharp and bright faces and edges. The violet color is exceptionally intense and it even hides, due to its intensity, the magnificent transparency, visible under an intense spotlight. The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 480 in the volume 37, number 5.
Tounfit, Boumia, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2006)
Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 2.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.10”
Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.02” × 0.71”
Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
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