Here is an assortment of unusual Brazilian minerals, mostly from Pegmatite environments.
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- Item #16768
- Siderite, Quartz, Pyrrhotite, Albite
- 7.7x4.8x3.4
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: q-40mm, s-16mm
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$110.00
- Morro Velho Mine
- Nova Lima, Minas Gerais
Brazil
- A sweet specimen showing sharp, discoidal siderite crystals associated with clear, colourless quartz crystals. These are sprinkled with tiny, sharp pyrrhotite crystals and some sharp clear albite crystals. Classic, long-closed mine!
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- Item #17215
- Greifensteinite, Eosphorite
- 3.1x3.3x2.0
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: gr-micro
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$65.00
- Taquaral Seco Mine
- Itinga, Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Sharp, divergent greifensteinite crystals are on and between eosphorite crystals up to 1.5cm or so. Also tiny tufts of an unknown white acicular mineral. Excellent!
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- Item #17216
- Greifensteinite, Eosphorite
- 4.3x3.5x2.5
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: gr-micro
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$75.00
- Taquaral Seco Mine
- Itinga, Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Many sharp, greifensteinite crystals are between much larger eosphoritwe crystals on this microcline crystal section. Also some very nice tufts of an unknown mineral. Very nice!
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- Item #17219
- Greifensteinite, Eosphorite, zanazziite
- 6.0x5.8x3.3
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: x-micro
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$75.00
- Taquaral Seco Mine
- Itinga, Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Lots of elongated eosphorite crystals on the front of this microcline, lepidolite matrix. The eosphorite crystals are partly encrusted with countless, excellent greifensteinite crystals. As WELL, there are clusters of superb, platy, slightly yellow zanazziite crystals here and there. Really nice specimen!
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- Item #17225
- Greifensteinite, Eosphorite
- 3.3x2.3x2.2
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: g-1mm
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$45.00
- Ipe Mine
- Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Brazil
- This specimen is a fully terminated quartz crystal on albite matrix. The termination of the quartz crystal is largely covered with eosphorite and balls of greifensteinite. There are also some needles of elbaite here and there on the piece. Interesting!
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- Item #20197
- Quartz, Dolomite
- 7.2x6.0x3.5
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 72mm
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$75.00
- Morro Velho
- Nova Lima
Minas Gerais,
Brazil
- A sweet specimen of lustrous, gemmy quartz with disc-like, sharp dolomite crystals. Small sulphide crystals are sprinkled here and there. Long closed mine. Displays well!
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- Item #21479
- Beryl
- 10.7x7.5x7.0
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$120.00
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- A very nice singly terminated beryl crystal showing a pinacoid termination, modified by at least a couple of pyramidal modifications. There are gemmy areas that can seen through the termination but most of the crystal is milky in the outer zones. Excellent example of beryl! R
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- Item #22199
- Epidote
- 10.1x2.1x2.0
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 101mm
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$65.00
- Cappelinha
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Just an exceptional, elongated crystal of dark-green, epidote from a modern Classic location. As you can see, the specimen consists of one larger, terminated crystal with a couple of smaller crystals attached. Very nice! r
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- Item #22697
- Kyanite
- 9.5x4.9x3.1
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 85mm
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$55.00
- Barra do Salinas
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Pretty cool sopecimen of deep blue kyanite prisms with colour variation across the width. Nicely striated with a little quartz between the crystals. Looks great!
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- Item #22721
- Eosphorite, Rischerite
- 4.9x2.0x1.5
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 3mm
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$40.00
- Taquaral
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- One side of this quartz shard is encrusted with many sharp eosphorite crystals which have a crust of small roscherite crystals, particularly on the right side of the childrenite group. Not a common phosphate mineral!
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- Item #24849
- Elbaite, Quartz
- 7.4x4.7x1.8
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$65.00
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Here is a flattened, clear quartz crystal that is shot through with dark green elbaite tourmaline crystals. Classic Brazilian pegmatite crystal specimen. s
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- Item #24940
- Quartz
- 7.3x2.5x3.2
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$40.00
- Conselhiero Mata
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Brazil is the source for many fine quartz crystals. Most have damaged terminations. Here is a nicely terminated milky quartz crystal from this famous area. s
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- Item #24947
- Hematite
- 4.0x2.5x2.0
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 25mm
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$45.00
- Novo Horizonte
- Bahia
Brazil
- A cluster of highly lustrous, sharp, hematite crystals. Very well formed with some small abrasions. Great hematite crystals from this locality.
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- Item #24916
- Topaz
- 3.7x3.0x3.5
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$75.00
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- A very light-blue, terminated, topaz crystal showing prefect basal cleavage on...the base! The crystal has some contact spots but is a well shaped and well terminated crystal! s
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- Item #24917
- Aquamarine
- 5.4x3.5x3.9
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$65.00
Brazil
- Brazil is famous for beryl-aquamarine crystals. Here is a nicely terminated example. It shows well formed prism faces and a mainly pinacoidal termination, although there are modifying faces around the pinacoid. Probably from Minas Gerais. s
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- Item #24925
- Beryl
- 3.9x1.6x1.3
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$75.00
- Teofilo Otoni
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- For some reason, aquamarine from this and certain other localities are well formed crystals with a tube town the middle. This crystal shows that interesting growth peculiarity. This well formed crystal has a very good termination, first and second order prism faces and a light blue colouration. s
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- Item #24929
- Topaz
- 2.6x2.4x3.1
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$55.00
- Capelinhas
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- A well-formed, colourless topaz crystal from this famous pegmatite area. It has a little abrasion but still looks very good. Nice example! s
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- Item #25938
- Chrysoberyl
- 1.1x0.9x0.5
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$75.00
- Espirito Santo
- Minas Gerais
Bolivia
- A gorgeous, small trilling of chrysoberyl! Three criss-crossing gemmy yellow-green crystals on a pedestal of smaller chrysoberyl xls. Very nice example!
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- Item #25939
- Chrysoberyl
- 1.2x1.2x0.7
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$95.00
- Santa Teresa
- Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais
Brazil
- A gemmy, yellow-green trilling of chrysoberyl with no matrix. Nice front and back! Classic chrysoberyl location.
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- Item #25940
- Chrysoberyl
- 1.8x1.5x0.4
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$75.00
- Minas Novas
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Here is a thick-tabular, twinned crystal of chrysoberyl from an interesting locality. Nice form, colour and stria!
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- Item #25969
- Brazilianite
- 2.1x1.9x1.9
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 12mm
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$75.00
- Minas Gerias
Brazil
- Extremely gemmy, light green crystals of brazilianite cover most of the top-front of this feldspar matrix. Well-terminated, beautiful crystals.
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- Item #25973
- Beryl, var. Aquamarine
- 2.4x0.7x0.7
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$55.00
- Teofilo Otani
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- A gemmy, well formed crystal from this phenomenal pegmatite district. Te termination is composed of a couple of pyramidal forms and a very small pinacoid. Very light greenish colour. Beautiful crystal!
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- Item #26385
- Rutile, Quartz
- 8.8x8.8x2.7
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$95.00
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- This is an odd mineral specimen. It is a portion of a large, smoky quartz crystal that has been sawn off, roughly parallel to the large face in the photo. The specimen is interesting since it is laced through with hair-like, golden rutile crystals, some up to several cm long. Beautiful as a mineral specimen or as lapidary material!
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- Item #26702
- Beryl, var. Aquamarine
- 5.2x0.9x0.6
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$120.00
- Teofilo Otoni
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- A very nice, long, slender, very light blue, well terminated beryl crystal from the world-famous pegmatite area. Nice crystal!!
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- Item #26703
- Beryl, Var. Morganite
- 3.7x3.8x2.5
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: as above
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$225.00
- Galilea Mine
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- This is a piece of a larger crystal of the orangey-pink morganite crystals that you have all seen in textbooks and museums. Don't know why it is sawn on one side but it is a highly gemmy, thick, crystal fragment with small crystal sections of elbaite and quartz attached.
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- Item #26862
- Quartz
- 7.6x5.5x4.8
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 9mm
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$120.00
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
- This is an interesting one. It is mostly composed of rose quartz crystals on a matrix of white quartz. Most of the top of the piece is rose quartz terminations with a chalcedony coating of the roase quartz in the center. Different! Unique!
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- Item #27230
- Descloizite
- 5.0x4.3x2.7
cm
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Largest Crystal Size: 10mm
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$40.00
- Mina Grande
- Itacacanambi, Minas Gerais
Brazil
- Now I've never heard of this location and it is not on mindat.org but this specimen comes from a reliable old collection. It is well-formed and lustrous brown crystals on corroded quartz. Different habit than I'm used to seeing from other descloizite localities... No significant associated minerals that I can see. Interesting one!
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