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Tugtupite, Chkalovite, Feldspar - Greenland
$150.00 USD
SKU: MSG1494
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A colorful piece from Taseq Slope, Greenland. Bright cherry red tugtupite, chkalovite (the rarer pearly white variety, along with green and/or magenta, many as small “eyes” surrounded by tugtupite), blue analcime, purple feldspar and minor polylithionite throughout the matrix. Under LW both the tugtupite and the sodalite fluoresce a bright orange (more salmon for the tugtupite).
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