Tourmaline Type Localities and Specimens



Buergerite

buegerite
Buergerite from Mexquitic, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Chromdravite

chromdravite
Tiny chips of the host rock containing fibers of green chromdravite from the Onezhkii basin, central Karelia, Russia

Dravite

Dravite from Dravograd
Dravite from Dobrova pri Dravogradu, near the village Dravograd, Republic of Slovenia
(former Unterdrauburg, Drava river area, Carinthia, Austro-Hungarian Empire).


Elbaite

Elbaite
Yellow-orange elbaite from the Rosina vein, San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy


Magnesiofoitite

magnesiofoitite
Magnesiofoitite fibers from Kyonosawa Mine, Honshu Island, Japan

Olenite


Olenitr

Pink crystal fragments of olenite in a 1.4 cm wide from the type locality, Oleny Ridge, Voron'i Tundry, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Russia.

Povondraite

povondraite
Small cluster of black povondraite crystals from Alto Chapare District, Chapare Province, Bolivia

Rossmanite

The type rossmanite crystal
The type rossmanite sample.
Pink rossmanite in lepidolite from the Hradisko quarry, Rožná, Moravia, Czech Republic


Schorl

Schorl
Sprays of schorl crystals from Zschorlau, Saxony, Germany.
Zschorlau was formerly known as the village "Schorl"


Last Updated: 15-Aug-2013