TUHUALITE from New Zealand TYPE LOCALITY MINERAL 1,2 cm

Opo Bay, Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty Region, North Island, New Zealand. Tuhualite is a very rare silicate mineral, forms sharp, well formed brownish-lilac to lilac crystals in a vuggy matrix.

There is one really beautiful crystal on the specimen. Specimen size: 1.2 x 1,1 x 1,1 cm. I'm a professional geologist/mineralogist, with analytical background. Many of my minerals were checked by x-ray diffraction and energy dispersive spectrometry.

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