Elbaite — specimen 0451, photo © NMNHS

Elbaite — specimen 0451

Origin

East Africa

Mozambique

Data

Weight: 0.20 ct; size: 3.77 | 3.77 | 2.48 mm; shape: octagon; colour: light strongly purplish red; very slightly brownish; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Eight’ by Glenn & Martha Vargas, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

Other specimens

More information from ‘Classification’

Elbaite

In granites, granite pegmatites, and some metamorphic rocks; in high-temperature hydrothermal veins (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).