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+ <option value="1" selected>Sillimanite</option><option value="2">From Australia</option><option value="3">From Austria</option><option value="4">From Canada</option><option value="5">From France</option><option value="6">From Germany</option><option value="7">From Italy</option><option value="8">From Myanmar</option><option value="9">From Spain</option><option value="10">From Sri Lanka</option><option value="11">From Sweden</option><option value="12">From USA</option></select>
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+ <div class='hidepc'><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-250924.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/1d/f9/07249270015476704175879.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>WOW ! Sillimanite usually comes out as rounded, water-worned pebbles but here comes a beautifull complete & biterminated crystal with sharp edges. Completely transparent, it is of a light blue color and C axis shows a light pinkish hue. Small, but quite exceptionnal for the species !
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+ Dimensions : 1,16cm x 0,29cm x 0,27cm</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Aymeric Longi</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-629590.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/9f/f1/04863430015820778733600.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz</h3><p>East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Fibrous sillimanite on quartz. Collected from the "Powerline near Hurd Park". Piece is likely from one of the quartz-sillimanite nodules noted from the Ordovician Collins Hill Formation. Anthony J. Albini collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2020 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-608433.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/40/0a/04184990015477138357400.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Nibbio-Val Faera (Nibbio-Val Fredda) pegmatites, Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Specimen and photo: Salvatore Natalizia</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-336938.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/b7/06/02045990015476704108047.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Benson Mines, Benson, Star Lake, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Dark brownish olive green sillimanite prism in microcline and quartz. 6 x 7.5 cm</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Van King</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-399218.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/81/df/00515890016099875169665.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz</h3><p>East Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Fibrous sillimanite in parallel growth with smoky quartz rods from the Brimfield Schist exposed at the owner's home. Harold Moritz collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2021 Harold Moritz </p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-620973.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/cb/a4/08063920016099875167866.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Magnetite, Quartz</h3><p>Willimantic, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Clove-brown, translucent, chatoyant prismatic sillimanite crystals in granular quartz with black magnetite (lower left). From an unspecified location no reference or collection seems to have recorded. But it is likely from an exposure of the Tatnic Hill Formation, which hosts similar crystals at Chester and Norwich. Harold Moritz collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2021 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-572483.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/52/0e/00843440015476704121556.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Andalusite</h3><p>Hüttenberg, Glees, Brohltal, Ahrweiler District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>White sillimanite, partly replacing pink andalusite in crystalline schist.
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+ Sillimanit, weiß, Teil- Pseudomorphose nach rosa Andalusit in kristallinem Schiefer, Wehr Vulkan, Eifel, Foto F. Kruijen, FOV 4mm, Sammlung Blass</p><p class="copyright">&copy; F. Kruijen & G. Blass</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-342384.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/41/49/02260420015476704178127.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>A very fine sharp terminated gemmy crystal of Sillimanite, from what i have seen, most of the crytals from this locality have a slightly water worn look to them, this one has well defined crystal faces.
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+ The colour varies depending on the light and the angle it is viewed from, from colourless to blueish/lavender.
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+ One of the child photos shows the ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Jason J. Evans</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-311466.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/6b/17/01612370015476704135063.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>RRUFF Project Specimen ID: R060080
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+ Locality: Pein Pyit, Mogok, Burma
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+ Source: Marcus Origlieri
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+ Light tan colored water-worn pebble</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rruff Project</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-336960.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/42/14/02203100015476704118006.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Sillimanite (Var: Fibrolite)</h3><p>Roveredo, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Nearly pure silky white sillimanite in intertwined aggregate. 3.5 x 8 cm Ex Joe Cilen</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Van King</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-152176.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/93/84/00777570015476704137691.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Laacher See Volcanic Complex, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Picture width 3 mm. Collection Bernd Ternes, foto Stephan Wolfsried</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Stephan Wolfsried 2/2008</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-625109.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/e6/c6/08620040015476704123193.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sillimanite type locality, Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Type specimen of sillimanite in quartz-rich segregation in the biotite-rich Tatnic Hill Formation gneiss. On display at the Joe Webb People's Museum, Exley Science Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2016 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-667127.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/41/c5/04316580015785816395047.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Benson Mines, Benson, Star Lake, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystal. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen 51835 on display at the New York State Museum in Albany.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2020 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-469358.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/5e/48/03556840015476704132689.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Allier River alluvials, Neuvy, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Gaétan Bouclet</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-469357.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/c0/66/04364680015476704137120.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Allier River alluvials, Neuvy, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Gaétan Bouclet</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-783222.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/1d/7e/00323920015476704104125.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sillimanite type locality, Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals on gneiss. Former Karl Schwarz collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2016 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-272193.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/e1/60/06559270015476704138041.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sillimanite type locality, Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Crystal is about 3 cm long. Harvard Mineralogical Museum, no. 85917. P. Cristofono photo. (Probably from the sillimanite type locality.)</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2009 Peter Cristofono</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-198287.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/ad/31/04976540015476704179133.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite. Vasco Trancoso collection and photo. Size: 2.0 x 0.5 x 0.3 cm
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+ Sillimanite is a high temperature and high pressure aluminum silicate found in metamorphic rocks. Transparent crystals are called "fibrolite" by gemologists. This is a fine elongate crystal with a bit of rounding. The edge rounding likely represents resorption into the ...</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-520219.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/db/31/02235710015476704237456.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>A perfect light blue crystal having a lozenge-like cross-section, measuring 24 x 5x 4 mm with a chisel-like termination; weight 1.14 g.
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+ Collection and photo of the author.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; M. Dolivet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-149081.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/fe/4e/04744700015476704212204.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Métou river alluvials, Vergonzac, Siaugues-Sainte-Marie, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-336931.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/ca/7c/00104230015476704148605.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Brownish gray prisms of sillimanite with square cross-section in light gray quartz, white oligoclase, dark brown rutile, black magnetite, and annite. 3 x 5 cm Ex Joe Cilen</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Van King</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-379201.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/f6/c4/03399190015476704244398.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Willimantic, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals richly distributed in matrix. The crystals range from colorless to a brownish grey, some with marked luster and transparency. 9.7 x 6 x 3.9 cm overall. Ex Seaman Museum. Henry Minot photo & collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Henry Minot</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-448184.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/a9/6d/03342260015478272695081.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Willimantic, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals in matrix. The matrix is about 5 inches tall.
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+ Specimen on public display at Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, photographed hand-held with P/S in February, 2012.</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-662836.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/c9/75/00578060015496408914108.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Corundum, Diaspore</h3><p>Åneland 02 Feldspar Quarry, Åneland, Evje og Hornnes, Agder, Norway</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The picture shows a sample of fine fibrous sillimanite, presumably pseudomorph after another mineral. The primary mineral might have been andalusite, but this remains to be proven.
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+ The corundum occurs as blue corns and microcrystals in the sillimanite mass. The diaspore is invisible but confirmed by XRD (Alf Olav Larsen, Norsk Hydro).
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+ The sample ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Evje og Hornnes kommune</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-555832.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/fa/80/01837610015478272724067.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Natrona County, Wyoming, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Field of view 4 cm.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Leon Hupperichs</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-879804.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/3c/05/04872150016079045924133.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Falls of the Yantic River, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals from one of the several classic occurrences of this mineral in the Tatnic Hill Formation. Former John I. Legro and Ed Force collections.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2020 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-577503.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/8a/72/01463790015496111902929.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Rounded gemmy crystal of fibrolite.
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+ Photographed by, and in the collection of Dan Costian. </p><p class="copyright">&copy; Dan Costian</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-966432.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/b8/fd/00725820015980079759141.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Tranomaro, Amboasary Sud, Anosy, Madagascar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Single Crystal
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+ </p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72575.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/fc/62/06603390015476704146570.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>"Christmas Point" pegmatite, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Large 9x2x2 cm gem quality pinkish-grey prismatic crystall of Sillimanite in granitic pegmatite matrix. Associated with Quartz, Microcline and Biotite. Specimen size is 11.5x7x3.5 cm. Collected by Edward Grew. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-44201.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/f9/62/03969320015476704153045.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Nibbio-Val Faera (Nibbio-Val Fredda) pegmatites, Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Grey crystals of sillimanite (2-2.5 cm in size) in pegmatite matrix. Photo and collection: Giovanni Fraccaro.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Giovanni Fraccaro</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-414065.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/3b/f6/02700340015476704152218.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Biotite, Quartz, K Feldspar, Plagioclase, Sillimanite (Var: Fibrolite)</h3><p>Plešovice quarry, Plešovice, Zlatá Koruna, Český Krumlov District, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Decorative aggregates of sillimanite on foliation plane of biotite gneiss, width of the area 7 cm. Actual locality is Plešovice quarry near Český Krumlov.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; S. Vrána</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72576.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/4b/9b/06178400015476704151263.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>"Christmas Point" pegmatite, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Fragment of giant 4.5x3.5x1.5 cm terminated but broken crystall of gem quality pinkish-grey Sillimanite in granitic pegmatite matrix. Its iridescence is well visible. Associated with Quartz, Microcline and Biotite. Specimen size is 11.5x7x3.5 cm. Collected by Edward Grew. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-7952.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/6d/c0/04908110015476704155607.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Pershyttan ore field, Nora, Örebro County, Sweden</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>\</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-163180.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/9d/81/05732420015476704159214.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Entia Valley, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>A 4.2 by 1.7 cms aggregate of long and slender parallel crystals. JSS specimen and photograph.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2008 JSS</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-39927.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/ff/7d/00935820015476704164655.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Miller Farm Property, Carlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The sillimanite xl measures 1.5 cm. Was collected in the winter of 2002. Is in the collection of the photographer</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Matthew Neuzil</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-7984.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/c7/26/06602980015476704165059.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Kyanite, Chloritoid</h3><p>Västanå Iron Mine, Näsum, Bromölla, Skåne County, Sweden</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite mixed with kyanite and a fissure filling of chloritoid. Size 30 cm. Photo Kjell Gatedal</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-14476.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/6d/ab/08738240015476704163741.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Jacobs Ruby Mine, Cowee Valley, Macon Co., North Carolina, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The largest specimen here is 20mm in length. The photo was taken in 2004 by Rex Biggers.</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-129672.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/93/e0/07206390015476704168359.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Biotite</h3><p>Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite sample with Biotite in center - 6x4x1,5cm - October of 2007</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72753.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/45/a7/09629160015476704167217.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Surinamite</h3><p>"Christmas Point" pegmatite, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Polished specimen with rhombic section of quadrangular crystal of Sillimanite in granitic pegmatite matrix. The black Quartz-Cordierite-Biotite veinlet is enriched with small blue Surinamite inclusions. Specimen size is 5x3x2 cm. Part of Edward Grew's #2292B specimen. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-112916.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/e4/e3/00649840015476704176894.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Odisha, India</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Charlie was very impressed with this rare gem crystal of sillimanite, which he told me was the best he had seen, for combination of size and form. I cannot argue, as I have never seen but rounded pebbles of this material, from Mogok and not from India. The crystal is a little bit like a floppy wizards hat in form, but it is translucent and ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72219.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/07/dc/01635350015476704171345.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Pale periwinkle double-terminated gemmy crystal showing great pleochroism down the c-axis, as the crystal turns to a pale yellow when shifted. The crystal weighs 7.9 carats and exhibits great form and transparency for a species that is not often gemmy. Overall dimensions are 17.5 mm x 8.6 mm x 4.2 mm.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Joshua Baimel (8/2006)</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-83126.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/c4/e6/03743580015476704173681.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>2.2 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm
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Such appearance of rock-forming sillimanite is the most abundant in the nature and differ significantly from gem varieties of the mineral. Specimen size is 8x5 cm. Collected by Victor Levitskii in 2005. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-60510.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/b5/31/06312920015476704174530.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Natrona County, Wyoming, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Crystallization not terminated in field with 4x4cm - December of 2004</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-55171.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/62/fa/09648930015476704171802.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Sillimanite (Var: Fibrolite)</h3><p>Damm, Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Cream white and fine-fibrous Sillimanite with polishing on front side of piece. Specimen size 9,3 x 4 cm.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; specimen collection and photo Peter Kohorst</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-152178.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/b0/40/00370350015476704187705.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Laacher See Volcanic Complex, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Picture width 3 mm. Collection Bernd Ternes, foto Stephan Wolfsried</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Stephan Wolfsried 2/2008</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-60509.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/08/2b/04855530015476704185441.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Natrona County, Wyoming, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sample with 7x7x6cm - December of 2004</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-375588.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/29/df/07712860015476704188895.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Benson Mines, Benson, Star Lake, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>6.2 cm. Red crystals in matrix from the collection of David J. Eicher. Ex- Dr. F. Krantz, Bonn, Germany; ex-Dr. Winfried Böhmer, Wunstorf, Germany. </p><p class="copyright">&copy; David J. Eicher</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-71035.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/12/6c/06365340015476704188029.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Morton Homestead, Prospect Park, Ridley Township, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The center specimen is about 2" long by 1" wide.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo property of Paul Hewitt</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-154476.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/75/b1/05612060015476704191385.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Brandywine Quarry, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Crystals of sillimanite, to 1 cm in width, embedded in schistose rock. S412-71 N1854N</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2009, JGW</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-199678.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/6b/a5/07982390015476704196115.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>12.4 x 7.1 x 2.7 cm. A large specimen of the mineral sillimanite with 3-dimensional but embedded crystals, named just before the time this was found and named for Professor Silliman of Yale. Ex. Charles Shepherd Collection (1804-1886), whom according to the Mineralogical Record Archive on him was with Benjamin Silliman's staff at Yale in 1827, as ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-147979.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/11/94/04661870015476704191630.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sénouire river alluvials, Frugières-le-Pin, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>
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Transparent crystals are called "fibrolite" by gemologists. This is a gemmy, fine, light purple elongate crystal with a bit of rounding. The edge rounding likely represents resorption into the matrix more than ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-190390.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/82/55/08914980015476704198366.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Bouchassou river alluvials, Ribeyre, Saint-Ilpize, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p> </p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-231845.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/e3/bf/00519800015476704202177.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>1.8 x 0.9 x 0.4 cm. Sillimanite is a high temperature and high pressure aluminum silicate found in high-grade regional metamorphic rocks. Transparent crystals are called "fibrolite" by gemologists. This is a gemmy, fine, lavender, elongate crystal with a bit of rounding. The edge rounding likely represents resorption into the matrix more than ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-288034.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/e6/db/05552320015620115024644.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)</h3><p>Connecticut Yankee atomic power plant, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Aggregate of fine-grained, thin, elongated sillimanite crystals on smoky quartz.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2019 Harold Moritz </p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-378216.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/ca/5f/04885040015476704209045.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Cuzzago-Proman pegmatite veins, Premosello-Chiovenda, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Prismatic gray crystals of sillimanite to 5.2 cm in length are frozen throughout this 10.0 x 9.5 x 5.5 cm matrix. Quite nice display specimen for the species. Ex Wolfgang E. Henkel collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Weinrich Minerals, Inc.</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-235304.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/29/af/02109270015476704207726.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Caspar quarry, Ettringen, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>White, fibrous Sillimanite, field of view 40 mm, collection C. &H. Schäfer</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Christof Schäfer</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-232267.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/c6/72/06892380015476704216346.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz</h3><p>Oconee County, South Carolina, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>This 5 1/2 x 3 inch specimen is a quartz-sillimanite schist from north of Seneca in Oconee Co. South Carolina. In the Creekmur collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Charles Creekmur</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-149082.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/d8/d8/02421830015476704206568.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Métou river alluvials, Vergonzac, Siaugues-Sainte-Marie, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-199672.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/a9/0b/07753930015476704138162.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Falls of the Yantic River, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>11.4 x 6.2 x 4.6 cm. Flat-lying, lustrous crystals of sillimanite (to 3 cm) embedded in schist matrix, a rich specimen from a historic old locality. Ex. Philadelphia Academy of Sciences Collection.
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+ Collection and photo: M Arliguie</p><p class="copyright">&copy; ARLIGUIE M</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-303825.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/eb/2f/06547140015476704226456.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Loire River alluvials, Gien, Montargis, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Size 0,9 mm – Photo and collection François Périnet - Analyse Vincent Bourgoin with the association Jean Wyart (UPMC).</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-232782.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/75/fe/02688990015476704221888.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Le Loch beach alluvials, Guidel-Plages, Guidel, Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Serge Guennéguès </p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-357946.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/73/19/06693860015476704235929.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Hincks Bridge, Lac-Sainte-Marie, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canada</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>H:5cm x W:3.5cm x D:0.8cm; Largest Crystal: 1.5cm
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+ Needles of clear sillimanite to 1.5 cm in a 1.0 mm thick layer of sillimanite on a piece of paragneiss containing other layers and lenses of sillimanite.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Maggie Wilson</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-184322.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/35/d6/03774980015476704229515.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Zircon</h3><p>Nibbio-Val Faera (Nibbio-Val Fredda) pegmatites, Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Red-purplish twinned zircon crystal, up to 5 mm, with light blue-gray prismatic, fibrous sillimanite crystal, up to 15 mm, in matrix. In my personal Alpine minerals suite. Photo: Simone Citon.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Simone Citon</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_mobile"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-469360.html"><img width='100%' src="/imagecache/ba/5d/08925250015476704138670.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Allier River alluvials, Neuvy, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Gaétan Bouclet</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class='clearer'></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-629590.html"><img width='635' height='848' src="/imagecache/6a/76/01501870015980738965059.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz</h3><p>East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Fibrous sillimanite on quartz. Collected from the "Powerline near Hurd Park". Piece is likely from one of the quartz-sillimanite nodules noted from the Ordovician Collins Hill Formation. Anthony J. Albini collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2020 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-250924.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/5b/5a/02222640014960832877553.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>WOW ! Sillimanite usually comes out as rounded, water-worned pebbles but here comes a beautifull complete & biterminated crystal with sharp edges. Completely transparent, it is of a light blue color and C axis shows a light pinkish hue. Small, but quite exceptionnal for the species !
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+ Dimensions : 1,16cm x 0,29cm x 0,27cm</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Aymeric Longi</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-608433.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/4b/77/06802820015156649384205.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Nibbio-Val Faera (Nibbio-Val Fredda) pegmatites, Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Specimen and photo: Salvatore Natalizia</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-620973.html"><img width='635' height='848' src="/imagecache/a6/f9/01975510016099875186201.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Magnetite, Quartz</h3><p>Willimantic, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Clove-brown, translucent, chatoyant prismatic sillimanite crystals in granular quartz with black magnetite (lower left). From an unspecified location no reference or collection seems to have recorded. But it is likely from an exposure of the Tatnic Hill Formation, which hosts similar crystals at Chester and Norwich. Harold Moritz collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2021 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-336938.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/33/de/06085900014960832777670.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Benson Mines, Benson, Star Lake, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Dark brownish olive green sillimanite prism in microcline and quartz. 6 x 7.5 cm</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Van King</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-399218.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/6c/d7/01156220016099875197295.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz</h3><p>East Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Fibrous sillimanite in parallel growth with smoky quartz rods from the Brimfield Schist exposed at the owner's home. Harold Moritz collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2021 Harold Moritz </p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-572483.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/39/b6/03723310014966642419754.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Andalusite</h3><p>Hüttenberg, Glees, Brohltal, Ahrweiler District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>White sillimanite, partly replacing pink andalusite in crystalline schist.
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+ Sillimanit, weiß, Teil- Pseudomorphose nach rosa Andalusit in kristallinem Schiefer, Wehr Vulkan, Eifel, Foto F. Kruijen, FOV 4mm, Sammlung Blass</p><p class="copyright">&copy; F. Kruijen & G. Blass</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-342384.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/37/25/03930610014960832862851.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>A very fine sharp terminated gemmy crystal of Sillimanite, from what i have seen, most of the crytals from this locality have a slightly water worn look to them, this one has well defined crystal faces.
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+ The colour varies depending on the light and the angle it is viewed from, from colourless to blueish/lavender.
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+ One of the child photos shows the ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Jason J. Evans</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-311466.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/ea/76/08522690014966642065703.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>RRUFF Project Specimen ID: R060080
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+ Locality: Pein Pyit, Mogok, Burma
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+ Source: Marcus Origlieri
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+ Light tan colored water-worn pebble</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rruff Project</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-625109.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/ea/6c/01154920015139883421589.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sillimanite type locality, Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Type specimen of sillimanite in quartz-rich segregation in the biotite-rich Tatnic Hill Formation gneiss. On display at the Joe Webb People's Museum, Exley Science Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2016 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-336960.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/2d/55/05138860014992783283659.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Sillimanite (Var: Fibrolite)</h3><p>Roveredo, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Nearly pure silky white sillimanite in intertwined aggregate. 3.5 x 8 cm Ex Joe Cilen</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Van King</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-152176.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/c7/82/02837060014960832906799.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Laacher See Volcanic Complex, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Picture width 3 mm. Collection Bernd Ternes, foto Stephan Wolfsried</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Stephan Wolfsried 2/2008</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-667127.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/3b/8a/06213920015982270835572.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Benson Mines, Benson, Star Lake, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystal. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen 51835 on display at the New York State Museum in Albany.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2020 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-469358.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/3d/e0/07146880014966642106409.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Allier River alluvials, Neuvy, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Gaétan Bouclet</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-469357.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/28/94/02553800014966642115989.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Allier River alluvials, Neuvy, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Gaétan Bouclet</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-198287.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/ed/e1/04114840014960832854021.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite. Vasco Trancoso collection and photo. Size: 2.0 x 0.5 x 0.3 cm
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+ Sillimanite is a high temperature and high pressure aluminum silicate found in metamorphic rocks. Transparent crystals are called "fibrolite" by gemologists. This is a fine elongate crystal with a bit of rounding. The edge rounding likely represents resorption into the ...</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-783222.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/d8/15/04462540014964509753317.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sillimanite type locality, Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals on gneiss. Former Karl Schwarz collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2016 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-272193.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/66/5f/04436380014960832805788.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sillimanite type locality, Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Crystal is about 3 cm long. Harvard Mineralogical Museum, no. 85917. P. Cristofono photo. (Probably from the sillimanite type locality.)</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2009 Peter Cristofono</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-520219.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/d6/35/01874860015187258962341.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>A perfect light blue crystal having a lozenge-like cross-section, measuring 24 x 5x 4 mm with a chisel-like termination; weight 1.14 g.
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+ Collection and photo of the author.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; M. Dolivet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-149081.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/bc/be/08834340014966642127708.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Métou river alluvials, Vergonzac, Siaugues-Sainte-Marie, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-336931.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/cd/d4/07342180015033423013497.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Brownish gray prisms of sillimanite with square cross-section in light gray quartz, white oligoclase, dark brown rutile, black magnetite, and annite. 3 x 5 cm Ex Joe Cilen</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Van King</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-448184.html"><img width='635' height='848' src="/imagecache/c8/eb/09571770014947063939876.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Willimantic, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals in matrix. The matrix is about 5 inches tall.
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+ Specimen on public display at Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, photographed hand-held with P/S in February, 2012.</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-379201.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/c0/23/02020020014960832964134.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Willimantic, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals richly distributed in matrix. The crystals range from colorless to a brownish grey, some with marked luster and transparency. 9.7 x 6 x 3.9 cm overall. Ex Seaman Museum. Henry Minot photo & collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Henry Minot</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-662836.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/7c/1b/00128700015980494917320.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Corundum, Diaspore</h3><p>Åneland 02 Feldspar Quarry, Åneland, Evje og Hornnes, Agder, Norway</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The picture shows a sample of fine fibrous sillimanite, presumably pseudomorph after another mineral. The primary mineral might have been andalusite, but this remains to be proven.
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+ The corundum occurs as blue corns and microcrystals in the sillimanite mass. The diaspore is invisible but confirmed by XRD (Alf Olav Larsen, Norsk Hydro).
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+ The sample ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Evje og Hornnes kommune</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-555832.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/24/f1/06583990016099875208535.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Natrona County, Wyoming, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Field of view 4 cm.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Leon Hupperichs</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-879804.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/d3/81/02529160016079045932488.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Falls of the Yantic River, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite crystals from one of the several classic occurrences of this mineral in the Tatnic Hill Formation. Former John I. Legro and Ed Force collections.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2020 Harold Moritz</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-577503.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/55/49/05036090016010914278760.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Rounded gemmy crystal of fibrolite.
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+ Photographed by, and in the collection of Dan Costian. </p><p class="copyright">&copy; Dan Costian</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-21347.html"><img width='635' height='848' src="/imagecache/a9/8d/09191160014947063639795.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Hakurutale, Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province, Sri Lanka</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The first of three remarkable crystals of this usually-boring species, brought back from Sri Lanka personally by a friend of mine about 15 years ago. This doubly-terminated crystal is partially etched, but clearly shows both terminations. 3 x 0.6 x 0.4 cm
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+ </p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-966432.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/91/18/09783260015980079764198.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Tranomaro, Amboasary Sud, Anosy, Madagascar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Single Crystal
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+ Old sample
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+ Collection and photo: Arliguie Michel</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-1037578.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/5d/10/07521190015980738985173.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Oak Hill Area, Standish, Cumberland County, Maine, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>LW LED illuminated white fluorescing sillimanite with red reflections from UV source.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Van King</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72575.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/c1/8e/08802280014962198613654.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>"Christmas Point" pegmatite, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Large 9x2x2 cm gem quality pinkish-grey prismatic crystall of Sillimanite in granitic pegmatite matrix. Associated with Quartz, Microcline and Biotite. Specimen size is 11.5x7x3.5 cm. Collected by Edward Grew. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-44201.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/97/ab/02139560014960832828815.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Nibbio-Val Faera (Nibbio-Val Fredda) pegmatites, Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Grey crystals of sillimanite (2-2.5 cm in size) in pegmatite matrix. Photo and collection: Giovanni Fraccaro.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Giovanni Fraccaro</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-414065.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/04/12/03620810014950604041861.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Biotite, Quartz, K Feldspar, Plagioclase, Sillimanite (Var: Fibrolite)</h3><p>Plešovice quarry, Plešovice, Zlatá Koruna, Český Krumlov District, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Decorative aggregates of sillimanite on foliation plane of biotite gneiss, width of the area 7 cm. Actual locality is Plešovice quarry near Český Krumlov.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; S. Vrána</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-163180.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/1d/ad/02416730015138944171465.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Entia Valley, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>A 4.2 by 1.7 cms aggregate of long and slender parallel crystals. JSS specimen and photograph.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2008 JSS</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72576.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/53/71/01290940014960832839266.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>"Christmas Point" pegmatite, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Fragment of giant 4.5x3.5x1.5 cm terminated but broken crystall of gem quality pinkish-grey Sillimanite in granitic pegmatite matrix. Its iridescence is well visible. Associated with Quartz, Microcline and Biotite. Specimen size is 11.5x7x3.5 cm. Collected by Edward Grew. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-7952.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/81/96/02341950014955063582816.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Pershyttan ore field, Nora, Örebro County, Sweden</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>\</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-39927.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/a8/ae/06060090014960832838269.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Miller Farm Property, Carlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The sillimanite xl measures 1.5 cm. Was collected in the winter of 2002. Is in the collection of the photographer</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Matthew Neuzil</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-7984.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/52/a3/09775500014960832828642.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Kyanite, Chloritoid</h3><p>Västanå Iron Mine, Näsum, Bromölla, Skåne County, Sweden</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite mixed with kyanite and a fissure filling of chloritoid. Size 30 cm. Photo Kjell Gatedal</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-14476.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/b6/15/03181470014960832842611.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Jacobs Ruby Mine, Cowee Valley, Macon Co., North Carolina, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The largest specimen here is 20mm in length. The photo was taken in 2004 by Rex Biggers.</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-112916.html"><img width='635' height='848' src="/imagecache/31/c7/01909460014947063738342.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Odisha, India</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Charlie was very impressed with this rare gem crystal of sillimanite, which he told me was the best he had seen, for combination of size and form. I cannot argue, as I have never seen but rounded pebbles of this material, from Mogok and not from India. The crystal is a little bit like a floppy wizards hat in form, but it is translucent and ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-129672.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/3b/70/02281720015138944184379.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Biotite</h3><p>Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sillimanite sample with Biotite in center - 6x4x1,5cm - October of 2007</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72753.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/2f/c9/06021060014960832842308.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Surinamite</h3><p>"Christmas Point" pegmatite, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Polished specimen with rhombic section of quadrangular crystal of Sillimanite in granitic pegmatite matrix. The black Quartz-Cordierite-Biotite veinlet is enriched with small blue Surinamite inclusions. Specimen size is 5x3x2 cm. Part of Edward Grew's #2292B specimen. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-72219.html"><img width='564' height='424' src="/imagecache/f1/d6/02651720014958122619854.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Pale periwinkle double-terminated gemmy crystal showing great pleochroism down the c-axis, as the crystal turns to a pale yellow when shifted. The crystal weighs 7.9 carats and exhibits great form and transparency for a species that is not often gemmy. Overall dimensions are 17.5 mm x 8.6 mm x 4.2 mm.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Joshua Baimel (8/2006)</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-83126.html"><img width='318' height='424' src="/imagecache/82/69/00653980015344291367183.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>2.2 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm
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The specimen was found in 2002 during road construction work. </p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-55171.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/44/e2/09923940014966642402630.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Sillimanite (Var: Fibrolite)</h3><p>Damm, Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Cream white and fine-fibrous Sillimanite with polishing on front side of piece. Specimen size 9,3 x 4 cm.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; specimen collection and photo Peter Kohorst</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-168052.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/63/d4/08269300014951730043641.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Muscovite</h3><p>Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>White fibrous masses of sillimanite in metaaluminous shists. Such appearance of rock-forming sillimanite is the most abundant in the nature and differ significantly from gem varieties of the mineral. Specimen size is 8x5 cm. Collected by Victor Levitskii in 2005. Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Pavel M. Kartashov collection & photo</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-60510.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/25/36/09444900014962652642044.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Natrona County, Wyoming, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Crystallization not terminated in field with 4x4cm - December of 2004</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-152178.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/79/d3/09707100015138944186568.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Laacher See Volcanic Complex, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Picture width 3 mm. Collection Bernd Ternes, foto Stephan Wolfsried</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Stephan Wolfsried 2/2008</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-60509.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/50/87/08123860014960832854755.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Natrona County, Wyoming, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Sample with 7x7x6cm - December of 2004</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-375588.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/4c/0a/01593860015140829018698.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Benson Mines, Benson, Star Lake, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>6.2 cm. Red crystals in matrix from the collection of David J. Eicher. Ex- Dr. F. Krantz, Bonn, Germany; ex-Dr. Winfried Böhmer, Wunstorf, Germany. </p><p class="copyright">&copy; David J. Eicher</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-71035.html"><img width='564' height='424' src="/imagecache/d2/a1/06414910015697001188465.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Morton Homestead, Prospect Park, Ridley Township, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>The center specimen is about 2" long by 1" wide.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Photo property of Paul Hewitt</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-154476.html"><img width='318' height='424' src="/imagecache/35/fa/02374240014947357764413.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Brandywine Quarry, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Crystals of sillimanite, to 1 cm in width, embedded in schistose rock. S412-71 N1854N</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2009, JGW</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-199678.html"><img width='318' height='424' src="/imagecache/55/2c/04390980014947357764736.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Chester, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>12.4 x 7.1 x 2.7 cm. A large specimen of the mineral sillimanite with 3-dimensional but embedded crystals, named just before the time this was found and named for Professor Silliman of Yale. Ex. Charles Shepherd Collection (1804-1886), whom according to the Mineralogical Record Archive on him was with Benjamin Silliman's staff at Yale in 1827, as ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-147979.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/d3/f1/03736500014966642115530.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Sénouire river alluvials, Frugières-le-Pin, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>
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The edge rounding likely represents resorption into the matrix more than ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-76450.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/da/49/00364960014960832878669.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>4 cm sillimanite pseudomorph after andalusite. P. Cristofono photo.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2006 Peter Cristofono</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-190390.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/c1/47/05028420014960832876463.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Bouchassou river alluvials, Ribeyre, Saint-Ilpize, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p> </p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-231845.html"><img width='318' height='424' src="/imagecache/35/5a/05534460014947350924477.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>1.8 x 0.9 x 0.4 cm. Sillimanite is a high temperature and high pressure aluminum silicate found in high-grade regional metamorphic rocks. Transparent crystals are called "fibrolite" by gemologists. This is a gemmy, fine, lavender, elongate crystal with a bit of rounding. The edge rounding likely represents resorption into the matrix more than ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-288034.html"><img width='564' height='424' src="/imagecache/52/f8/01909560016101824145449.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)</h3><p>Connecticut Yankee atomic power plant, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Aggregate of fine-grained, thin, elongated sillimanite crystals on smoky quartz.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; 2019 Harold Moritz </p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-378216.html"><img width='318' height='424' src="/imagecache/13/69/07080580014947063887940.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Cuzzago-Proman pegmatite veins, Premosello-Chiovenda, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Prismatic gray crystals of sillimanite to 5.2 cm in length are frozen throughout this 10.0 x 9.5 x 5.5 cm matrix. Quite nice display specimen for the species. Ex Wolfgang E. Henkel collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Weinrich Minerals, Inc.</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-149082.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/74/2d/05187320014970595193115.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Métou river alluvials, Vergonzac, Siaugues-Sainte-Marie, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-235304.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/ff/20/02775670014966642415962.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Caspar quarry, Ettringen, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>White, fibrous Sillimanite, field of view 40 mm, collection C. &H. Schäfer</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Christof Schäfer</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-232267.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/dd/69/01752220014960832928784.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Quartz</h3><p>Oconee County, South Carolina, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>This 5 1/2 x 3 inch specimen is a quartz-sillimanite schist from north of Seneca in Oconee Co. South Carolina. In the Creekmur collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Charles Creekmur</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-199672.html"><img width='635' height='848' src="/imagecache/2d/76/08944370014947063673318.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Falls of the Yantic River, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut, USA</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>11.4 x 6.2 x 4.6 cm. Flat-lying, lustrous crystals of sillimanite (to 3 cm) embedded in schist matrix, a rich specimen from a historic old locality. Ex. Philadelphia Academy of Sciences Collection.
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+ Tan colored cleavage fragment from a water worn pebble</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rruff Project</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-232782.html"><img width='800' height='602' src="/imagecache/de/97/05167920014992567383349.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Le Loch beach alluvials, Guidel-Plages, Guidel, Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Serge Guennéguès </p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-88374.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/a7/6c/07222360014966642119133.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Champsiaux, La Meyze, Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Size: 9 X 3 cm
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+ Collection and photo: M Arliguie</p><p class="copyright">&copy; ARLIGUIE M</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-303825.html"><img width='400' height='301' src="/imagecache/30/a7/03157750014964173074669.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Loire River alluvials, Gien, Montargis, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Size 0,9 mm – Photo and collection François Périnet - Analyse Vincent Bourgoin with the association Jean Wyart (UPMC).</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class='photoblock hidephone'><div class="inner float_left"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-357946.html"><img width='635' height='848' src="/imagecache/97/27/03505640014947353662770.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Hincks Bridge, Lac-Sainte-Marie, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canada</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>H:5cm x W:3.5cm x D:0.8cm; Largest Crystal: 1.5cm
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+ Needles of clear sillimanite to 1.5 cm in a 1.0 mm thick layer of sillimanite on a piece of paragneiss containing other layers and lenses of sillimanite.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Maggie Wilson</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-184322.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/95/93/00879910014960832917313.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite, Zircon</h3><p>Nibbio-Val Faera (Nibbio-Val Fredda) pegmatites, Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Red-purplish twinned zircon crystal, up to 5 mm, with light blue-gray prismatic, fibrous sillimanite crystal, up to 15 mm, in matrix. In my personal Alpine minerals suite. Photo: Simone Citon.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Simone Citon</p></div></div></a></div><div class="inner float_right"><a class="fancybox" rel="gallery1" href="/photo-469360.html"><img width='565' height='424' src="/imagecache/eb/9a/06066920015139407216365.jpg" /><div class="blockinfo"><div class="blockhead"><h3>Sillimanite</h3><p>Allier River alluvials, Neuvy, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France</p></div><div class="blocktail"><p>Heavy sands collected by Gaétan Bouclet</p><p class="copyright">&copy; François Périnet</p></div></div></a></div></div><div class="clearer"></div>
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