You'll be understanding if, when you obtain a copy of the book, you turn to the Santa Tereza chrysoberyl (page 106: Keith Proctor collection), Morro Velho gold (page 150: Alvaro Lucio collection), Lavra Caba Saco rutile (page 288: Luiz Menezes collection), Brumado dolomite (page 317: Julio Landmann collection), Ouro Preto crocoite (page 331: Alvaro Lucio collection), Sapo mine fluorapatite (page 347: Jim and Gail Spann collection), Malacacheta autunite (page 357: Luiz Menezes collection), or nearly any one of the stunning specimens of topaz, elbaite, beryl,
euclase, etc.
Thomas Nagin of Crystal Springs Mining Company and Gallery (see above under Colombian
euclase) has just begun gathering amethyst specimens at his new open-pit working in Kenya, two hours' drive east of Nairobi, called the Baobab mine, Kitui, Kitni Province.
They had four children together (Bryce Walford McMurdo, Clarence Sinclair Darwin Bryce, Beryl May and Edith
Euclase Winifred).
This very interesting city hosts a mining school and possesses the best mineralogical museum in Brazil, with a special emphasis on minerals of the region (there is a special sub-collection of "imperial" topaz and
euclase).
Euclase crystals up to 5 mm have been identified on one specimen from Klein Spitzkoppe (Beyer, 1980).
Also here were lovely, lustrous thumbnail-size clusters of pale to medium-pink fluorapatite crystals; a couple of superb brown parisite crystals approaching 2 cm; and wonderful pale blue, gemmy
euclase crystals to a remarkable 7 cm, with sharp wedge-terminations and no side-cleavage wounds at all.
On occasion, interesting species such as
euclase, apatite, topaz and kesterite with mushistonite have also been found.
Surveying this latter table, one wishes (if one is a mineral collector) that certain gem materials of "non-traditional" type, listed here, had been awarded chapters of their own: benitoite, brazilianite,
euclase, sinhalite, or even sphalerite might justly have claimed more text-space (we think, if we are mineral collectors) than chalcedony or amber, each of which gets a large chapter.
Only after examination at the University of Dresden were the crystals identified as
euclase. Inevitably this specimen, and perhaps others, disappeared into private hands before it could be determined whether the specimen(s) show other species which also had not yet been seen, or are very rare, at Xuebaoding.
Little Big Stone (Frederic Gautier, BP 5221, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar) had an excellent array of crystallized specimens from this island: there was a small group of
euclase specimens, mostly thumbnails, and one small miniature, marked up to [euro]170, and there was pezzottaite priced from $120-$160/gram for loose hexagonal crystals up to small miniature size.
In the booth of Tironi Minerali (via Nazionale 11/A, 23020 Prata Camportaccio So, Italy), we found a good selection of new
euclase crystals from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil--no prices were marked but the finest one was a 2.5 X 2.5-cm crystal, colorless with the typical blue stripe running down through the middle.
There were kunzites, tanzanites, tourmalines, emeralds, even an enormous, rare and superb deep blue
euclase crystal.
