Quartz Crystals on Calcite - San Antonio Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
Small delicate crystals of bright green fluorescing quartz are peppered around a matrix of calcite on this striking specimen.
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Tugtupite Crystals, Chkalovite - Greenland
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A smaller piece of our larger Kangerlussaq tugtupite specimens containing small tugtupite crystals dispersed throughout the matrix. Nicely tenebrescent. There is some green chkalovite mixed in with the tugtupite creating a beautiful yellow color. Not many pieces like these will ever hit the market.
Under midwave this piece glows all sorts purple-lilac, magenta, red colors. It also displays an incredible phosphorescence.
The brownish areas are still considered tugtupite.
"Red" Sodalite (Hackmanite) - Deeply Tenebrescent Greenland Mineral
Red sodalite is named for the color it takes on when exposed to sunlight; it is nicely tenebrescent under longwave UV. Under shortwave UV the color deepens, in seconds, to almost black in some areas.
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A Short Study on Rare Occurrences of Apatite from the Ilimaussaq Complex, Greenland
Rarest of the rare from Greenland - apatite has only been observed in a handful of pieces over the decade+ we have been exploring Greenland. Blue apatite crystals fluorescing under UV.
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