Specimen #1718

Name: Holmquistite

Type: Micromount

Locality: Volta Grande Pegmatite, Nazareno, Mortes Valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Favorite? N

Fluorescent? N

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Acquired: 2009-11-11

Source: Simkev Micromounts

Label: N

Comment: Not the usual habit of crystals frozen in rock. These pieces have sprays of white to colorless acicular crystals on Quartz fragments

Minerals: Holmquistite ([ ](Li2Mg3Al2)Si8O22(OH)2) Quartz (SiO2)

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Holmquistite, Volta Grande Pegmatite, Nazareno, Mortes Valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil - FOV: 18.8 x 12.5 mm