45 x 70 x 70 mm - 136 (g)
53 x 91 x 48 mm - 225 (g)
35 x 44 x 19 mm - 45 (g)
Pronouncing VoRobYeVite is easy if you know how to do it.
Vorobyevite is also called rosterite.
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39 x 29 x 32 mm - 135 carat
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50 x 29 x 33 mm - 48 (g)
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38 x 18 x 29 mm - 102 carat
Vorobyevite was named after the Russian mineralogist, Anatoly Nikolaevich Vorobyev, who found it in the Lovozero Massif of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
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66 x 30 x 57 mm - 46 (g)
26 x 12 x 14 mm - 22 carat
24 x 15 x 18 mm - 34 carat
26 x 21 x 20 mm - 54 carat
20 x 14 x 16 mm - 21 carat
80 x 29 x 46 mm - 92 (g)
All pieces shown on this site are from Deo Darrah, Afghanistan.
23 x 14 x 14 mm - 33 carat
38 x 20 x 30 mm - 106 carat
48 x 25 x 47 mm - 54 (g)
38 x 24 x 28 mm - 155 carat
12 x 19 x 16 mm - 14 carat
75 x 39 x 41 mm - 111 (g)
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37 x 23 x 25 mm - 82 carat
The chemical formula of vorobyevite is Be3Al2Si6O18. It is generally regarded as an alkali beryl, implying that it contains alkali metals such as sodium, potassium or caesium, but vorobyevite is a still poorly understood mineral. This is why not everybody recognizes it as a new species under current mineralogical rules. Still under debate is what causes vorobyevite's unique morphology, the tabular hexagonal crystals or the multi-terminated variety.