Yellow muscovite from Brazil

Brendan M. Laurs1, George R. Rossman2, Michele Macri3, William B. SImmons4, Alexander U. Falster4

1Gemological Institute of America, Carlsbad, CA, USA.
2Division of Geology and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, USA.
3Museo di Mineralogia, Universitá "La Sapienza", Rome Italy.
4University of New Orleans, Louisiana



Abstract:

A gem-quality yellow mica from Itinga in the Araçuaí pegmatite district, Minas Gerais, Brazil., is characterized

 

yellow mica