Tourmaline from the Minh Tien Pegmatite Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam

摘要

The Minh Tien pegmatite, located a few kilometers southeast of the town of Luc Yen in northern Vietnam, has yielded large and attractive divergent clusters of pink and raspberry-red to yellow-green and yellow-orange tourmaline (elbaite, rossmanite and possibly liddicoatite) in recent years. The first published reference to a specimen from the occurrence (though the site is not named) may well date back to 1795.