AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Dravite Tourmaline |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 76464 |
Mineral: | Dravite Tourmaline |
Locality: | Tourmaline Prospect 100 m. west of Biermann Quarry, Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut |
Description: | Doubly-terminated black dravite tourmaline crystal embedded in silvery muscovite mica. The dravite crystal has shallow three-sided pyramidal terminations on both ends. Dravite crystals in matrix are rare from this locale, most were loose crystals. Collected in 1993 |
Overall Size: | 4.5x3.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | 21 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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