I’ve posted some excellent new specimens in this Brazil Update (click here). This update is a mix of great pieces from various finds and localities. Among them, there is a superb spessartine from the 2003 pocket at the Navegadora Mine and a gorgeous rutile star with glass-clear pale smoky quartz crystals over it. This update features some exceptionally fine crystals of rutile var struverite-ilmenorutile, and it also includes sharp crystals of chrysoberyl var. alexandrite. Many more fine specimens, including excellent crystals of montebrasite, brazilianite, spodumene var. kunzite, muscovite (including “star”-twinned crystals), rutilated quartz and sceptered quartz.

 Spessartine Garnet, Navegadora Mine, Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 6 cm

Quartz on a Rutile-Hematite star, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil
Field of view 6 cm

 Rutile, var. Struverite-Ilmenorutile, Golconda District, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 4.1 cm

Rutile, var. Struverite-Ilmenorutile, Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 3.1 cm

Rutile, var. Struverite-Ilmenorutile, Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 2.5 cm

Rutile, Diamantina, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 3.8 cm

Montebrasite, Telirio Claim, Linoplois, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Field of view 3.3 cm

Brazilianite, Telirio Claim, Linoplois, Divino das Laranjeiras, Brazil – 4.2 cm

Chrysoberyl var. Alexandrite, Carnaíba District, Pindobaçu, Bahia, Brazil – 1.5 cm twin

Chrysoberyl var. Alexandrite, Carnaíba District, Pindobaçu, Bahia, Brazil – 4.7 cm

Chrysoberyl (Twinned) on Muscovite, Rio das Pratinhas, Arataca, Bahia, Brazil – 3.1 cm

Spodumene var. Kunzite, Urucum Mine, Galilea, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 6.9 cm

Muscovite (“Star Mica”), Jenipapo Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 6.6 cm

Rutilated Quartz, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil – 9.4 cm

Quartz, Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 7.0 cm

Quartz, Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil – 7.1 cm