Elbaite — specimen 0564, photo © NMNHS

Elbaite — specimen 0564

Origin

West Africa

Nigeria

Data

Weight: 0.29 ct; size: 4.81 | 4.86 | 2.80 mm; shape: cushion triangle; colour: medium light strongly purplish red; slightly brownish; clarity: eye clean; cut: very good; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘99Simp’ by Jim Finlayson [pavilion angle changed to 41.00; skipping 43.00 crown], 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).