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Sodalite (Hackmanite) from Greenland - Very Tenebrescent

This is one of the more tenebrescent varieties of sodalite from the Ilimaussaq Complex, Greenland. We discovered it one year in the same area where blue sodalite is found, but these pieces were extracted from a vein within a cliff just prior to the blue sodalite deposit. Perhaps they are blue sodalite "being born?" - their natural color is more of an off-white. But tenebrescence reigns supreme (see the animation at the bottom).

Sodalite Hackmanite Shortwave

Sodalite (Hackmanite) under shortwave UV, green fluorescence unknown

Sodalite Hackmanite Tenebrescent

Tenebrescent

Sodalite Hackmanite

Natural

Sodalite Hackmanite Longwave

Longwave

Animation showing tenebrescence

Animation showing tenebrescence

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