Dravite Tourmaline
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Dravite Tourmaline

Specimen # 100186
Mineral: Dravite Tourmaline
Location: Serra Branca, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Size: 4.0 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm

Description

Detailed Description

Great, sharp lustrous dravite with textbook form. The lustre is much brighter than the photographs convey (both the prism faces and the top termination). A little internal colour is visitble under strong light.  Excellent crystal!

About These Dravite Tourmalines

These dravite tourmalines from Serra Branca, Brazil, are sharp crystals!

All of the crystals are doubly-terminated. The prism faces have a bright lustre, like black opaque glass. Under bright lights (such as the photography lighting), a few subsurface glints of internal brown are visible in some, but under normal lighting, to the eye the crystals look essentially black and opaque. The termination faces vary, with many showing a slightly silky lustre and delicate texture. Most of these are crisp, simple crystals (they really look like idealized crystal models!) and some have a bit more complexity to them. None of these crystals are perfect all-around – they have a little edge wear or minor nicking in some place or another – however, these are high quality specimens and they are the best of the lot.

These specimens were collected in the 1990s and they were squirrelled away in Brazil. Frank Melanson had analysis done to confirm that they should be labeled dravite.

Additional information

Dimensions 40 × 20 × 15 cm

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