I have added excellent new specimens in this Brazil Update (click here). These include brazilianite, fluorapatite, elbaite, aquamarine, hematite, rutile, spessartine and beautiful fuchsite crystals, along with quartz and calcite (and I snuck in a cool Uruguay specimen too). I hope you enjoy them!

Brazilianite on albite, Telirio Claim, Linoplois, Divino das Laranjeiras,
Minas Gerais, Brazil – 6.6 cm

Fluorapatite, Sapo Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Field of view 5.0 cm

Same specimen as above, ultraviolet light
Field of view 4.0 cm

Fluorapatite crystals from the Sapo Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 4.5 cm

Beryl (variety aquamarine) from Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 6.5 cm

Beryl (variety aquamarine), Medina, Pedra Azul District, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 3.7 cm

Elbaite tourmaline with lepidolite, Urubu Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 7.6 cm

Elbaite tourmaline with lepidolite, Urubu Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 7.5 cm

Elbaite tourmaline crystal from the Pederneira Mine, Sao Jose da Safira,
Minas Gerais, Brazil – 4.1 cm

Same crystal as above, opposite orientation

Elbaite tourmaline, Cruzeiro Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Hematite with epitactic rutile from Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil – 5.5 cm

Reticulated rutile on quartz from Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Field of view 2.6 cm

Reticulated rutile on quartz from Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Field of view 2.6 cm

Rutile in quartz from Itamarandiba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Field of view 4.0 cm

Muscovite, variety fuchsite, Junco, Malacachetta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Field of view 2.0 cm

Muscovite, variety fuchsite, Junco, Malacachetta, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 4.9 cm

Quartz, var. amethyst, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – 13.5 cm

Quartz, var. Amethyst, after Calcite, Artigas, Uruguay – 5.8 cm

Same specimen as above, showing the sharp, hollow cast where the calcite crystal was.

Calcite, Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – 6.1 cm

Same specimen as above, under ultraviolet light

Almandine garnet, Tenente Ananias, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil – 7.1 cm

Quartz, var. chalcedony, from Paraiba, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil – 19 cm

Quartz, Presidente Kubitscheck, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 5.6 cm

Quartz, Presidente Kubitscheck, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 5.6 cm

Quartz, var. smoky quartz, Presidente Kubitscheck, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 5.3 cm

Spessartine garnet, Navegadora Mine, Penha do Norte,
Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 3.7 cm

Spessartine garnet, Navegadora Mine, Penha do Norte,
Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 2.4 cm