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GeoPicture of the week: Elbaite, cleavelandite, and quartz mined from California’s Tourmaline Queen Mine

Last updated on November 23rd, 2012 at 6:49 am by Mihai Andrei

Elbaite is a type of tourmaline, a sodium, lithium, aluminium boro-silicate. Cleavelandite is a type of albite feldspar.

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