Childrenite Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Cut childrenite is a great rarity, and all gems are small. Cut eosphorite is more abundantly available, though both materials are very scarce.
Series to Eosphorite if Mn exceeds Fe.
OPTICS: a = 1.63-1.645; β = 1.65-1.68; γ = 1.66-1.685. Biaxial (-), 2V= 40-45°.
OCCURRENCE: In granite pegmatites and hydrothermal vein deposits.
Cornwall, England; Greifenstein Germany; Custer, South Dakota.
Minas Gerais, Brazil: gemmy crystals. These are found to be Fe: Mn = 1:1 and could be called childro-eosphorite.
COMMENTS: Cut childrenite is a great rarity, and all gems are small. Cut eosphorite is more abundantly available, though both materials are very scarce.
NAME: J. G. Children, English mineralogist.
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