[Rockhounds] Iowalite

[DON HALTERMAN]

Looks a lot like rough charoite to me.  Hard to say from a photo though.  Of course, I'll point out that if you can't find any info about it, it's not a mineral species name.

Don


> On 04/09/2021 7:31 PM John Scully <jscully216 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Ok, all you savants.  Here in a much diminished Tucson.  Got a few pieces
> of a deeply purple mineral a Russian dealer called "iowalite" from the
> Altai mtns.  I can't find anything about it on Google.  Any ideas other
> than that I am a sucker?
> John Scully
> 🙂🙂
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