51 x 87 x 72 mm - 329 (g)
45 x 70 x 70 mm - 136 (g)
35 x 90 x 70 mm - 263 (g)
Pronouncing VoRobYeVite is easy if you know how to do it.
Vorobyevite is also called rosterite.
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40 x 17 x 28 mm - 85 carat
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64 x 26 x 42 mm - 52 (g)
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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42 x 29 x 34 mm - 91 carat
12 x 9 x 13 mm - 13 carat
23 x 14 x 14 mm - 33 carat
22 x 13 x 9 mm - 11 (g)
13 x 5 x 10 mm - 2 carat
36 x 23 x 25 mm - 78 carat
All pieces shown on this site are from Deo Darrah, Afghanistan.
18 x 13 x 13 mm - 23 carat
17 x 9 x 12 mm - 7 carat
16 x 8 x 15 mm - 9 carat
18 x 10 x 14 mm - 21 carat
38 x 17 x 22 mm - 62 carat
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50 x 29 x 33 mm - 48 (g)
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.