1.8" Black Tourmaline (Schorl) & Fluorite Association - Namibia

Here is a beautiful assocation of purple/green fluorite that formed from a bed of needle-like black tourmaline crystals, collected from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia.

Fluorite is a halide mineral comprised of calcium and fluorine, CaF2. The word fluorite is from the Latin fluo-, which means "to flow". In 1852 fluorite gave its name to the phenomenon known as fluorescence, or the property of fluorite to glow a different color depending upon the bandwidth of the ultraviolet light it is exposed to. Fluorite occurs commonly in cubic, octahedral, and dodecahedral crystals in many different colors. These colors range from colorless and completely transparent to yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, or black. Purples and greens tend to be the most common colors seen, and colorless, pink, and black are the rarest.


Tourmaline is a crystalline boron silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. Schorl, or black tourmaline, is its most common form, and has been used for everything from jewelry to piezoelectric guitar pickups.
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SPECIES
Black Tourmaline (Schorl) & Fluorite
LOCATION
Erongo Mountains, Namibia
SIZE
1.8" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#90694