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35 x 44 x 19 mm - 45 (g)
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52 x 125 x 90 mm - 495 (g)
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51 x 87 x 72 mm - 329 (g)
Pronouncing VoRobYeVite is easy if you know how to do it.


Vorobyevite is also called rosterite.


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26 x 20 x 24 mm - (g)
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22 x 107 x 74 mm - 164 (g)


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45 x 70 x 70 mm - 136 (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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53 x 91 x 48 mm - 225 (g)
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70 x 157 x 90 mm - 734 (g)
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42 x 83 x 68 mm - 263 (g)
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55 x 90 x 65 mm - 249 (g)
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8 x 11 x 11 mm - 8 (g)
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82 x 31 x 65 mm - 183 (g)


All pieces shown on this site are from Deo Darrah, Afghanistan.

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7 x 20 x 15 mm - 12 carat
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12 x 19 x 16 mm - 14 carat
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42 x 63 x 40 mm - 107 (g)
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35 x 90 x 70 mm - 263 (g)
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10 x 24 x 16 mm - 14 (g)


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9 x 8 x 4 mm - 2 carat


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59 x 89 x 58 mm - 319 (g)
The chemical formula of vorobyevite is Be3Al2Si6O18. It is generally regarded as an alkali beryl, implying that it contains sodium and/or potassium, 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.