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Spectrolite from Oslo museum

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Polished spectrolite showing the color play

Spectrolite is a rare variety of labradorite feldspar which exhibits intense labradorescence, schiller or iridescence.[1][2] The variety is a trade name for material mined in Finland.[1] Labradorite with the spectrolite play of colors has also reported from Madagascar.[3] It is noted for the play of colors from blue to red. It is often cut as a lapidary cabochon and used as a gemstone.

Finland deposit[]

Plantilla:Unreferenced section Finnish geologist Aarne Laitakari (1890—1975) had described the peculiar stone and sought its origin for years when his son Pekka discovered the deposit at Ylämaa in south-eastern Finland while building the Salpa Line fortifications there in 1940. Although labradorite is found in Labrador, Norway, Madagascar and Russia in addition to Finland, the Finnish stone exhibits a uniquely vivid iridescence. The name spectrolite was given to it by the elder Laitakari; it is a commercial name and is properly used only of gemstone-quality material from the Ylämaa deposit.

The quarrying of spectrolite began after the Second World War and has become a significant local industry. In 1973 the first workshop in Ylämaa became cutting and polishing spectrolite for jewels.

References[]

  1. 1,0 1,1 Walter Schumann, Gemstones of the World, Sterling, 3rd ed., 2007, pp. 52 - 53, 182 ISBN 1402740166
  2. http://www.minerals.net/mineral/silicate/tecto/feldspar/variety/spctrolt.htm Minerals.net Spectrolite
  3. Michael O'Donoghue, Gems, Butterworth-Heinemann, 6th ed., 2006, pp. 265-267, ISBN 0750658568
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