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Fluor-buergerite Tourmaline (formerly Buergerite) from near Mexquitic, San Luis Potosí, Mexico (Type Locality for Fluor-buergerite Tourmaline (formerly Buergerite))

DESCRIPTION:	No. 78662
Mineral:	Fluor-buergerite Tourmaline (formerly Buergerite)
Locality:	near Mexquitic, San Luis Potosí, Mexico (Type Locality for Fluor-buergerite Tourmaline (formerly Buergerite))
Description:	Large specimen of many lustrous brown-black buergerite tourmaline crystals on beige-colored matrix. An excellent buergerite tourmaline specimen from the type locality (the miner of this rare tourmaline died without divulging the exact locality). Ex. University of Arizona Mineralogical Museum; ex. Chris Tredwell collection; acquired in January 1962 from Davis Minerals
Overall Size:	8.5x4.5x3 cm
Crystals:	1-10 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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