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EM13AM2: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (02/2020)
Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.38” × 0.94” × 0.63”
Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”
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