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English: Tourmaline, Quartz
Locality: Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California, USA (Locality at mindat.org)
WOW! The pics of this amazing specimen pretty much speaks for it, but beyond that it won the prestigious Savinar prize for best San Diego specimen at the Los Angeles club show last year. It is one of the finest large Himalaya specimens I have handled, and really stands elegantly apart from most because of its dramatic termination and its amazing perch on matrix. Now, it is repaired onto the matrix cleanly but the tourmaline itself is miraculously not repaired, and moreover it is pristine! The tourmaline crystal is 14.5 x 4 x 3.75 cm. it has good color, not the best but not pale either, and nice color-zoning. the termination is REALLY unusual. i have seen very few himalaya tourmaliines with such wildly divergent terminations like a spray of crystals with intensified color, erupting from a common center! this colorful and 3-dimensional termination is one of the best things about the piece. Lastly, the 13 x 9 x 4.5 cm quartz has some small broken but rehealed (in situ) areas to it. it is a complete FLOATER all around, with no attachments to the quartz or the tourmaline - amazing! 20 x 9 x 7.5 cm
Deutsch: Turmalin, Quarz
Fundort: Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, Kalifornien, USA (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://www.mindat.org/photo-20394.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
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Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
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Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus
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