Reviews
This Specimen has been sold.
HERE ARE SOME OTHER SIMILAR FOSSILS FOR SALE
2.9" Polished Red-Pink Yuksporite - Yukspor Mountain, Russia
This is a 2.9" wide, polished yuksporite section that was collected from Yukspor Mountain on the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The specimen features sprays of red-pink yuksporite crystals that are associated with an array of other minerals. Under shortwave UV, the yuksporite fluoresces a mixture of white, yellow and orange, with vibrant red fluorescence of what is likely calcite adjacent to the yuksporite.
One side of this specimen has been polished to a glossy finish, while the rest has been left in its rough state. It comes with an acrylic display stand.
One side of this specimen has been polished to a glossy finish, while the rest has been left in its rough state. It comes with an acrylic display stand.
Yuksporite is a rare inosilicate mineral that often bears brown-pink to rose-pink and yellow coloration. Its type locality is Hackman Valley on Yukspor Mountain in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, where the first documented discovery was by Ekaterina Evtikhievna Kostyleva in 1922. It has quite a complex chemical formula - K4(Ca,Na)14Sr2Mn(Ti,Nb)4(O,OH)4(Si6O17)2(Si2O7)3(H2O,OH)3 - and contains rare elements such as niobium, strontium, and titanium, among a wide variety of other more common elements. Yuksporite is only known to be found in Russia where it occurs in veins in nepheline syenite.
SPECIES
Yuksporite
LOCATION
Yukspor Mt., Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia
SIZE
2.9 x 2.8"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#191851
