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Dravite Tourmaline from Dobrova, Dravograd (Unterdrauburg), formerly Carinthia, Republic of Slovenia (Type Locality for Dravite)

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:

DESCRIPTION:	No. 44492
Mineral:	Dravite Tourmaline
Locality:	Dobrova, Dravograd (Unterdrauburg), formerly Carinthia, Republic of Slovenia (Type Locality for Dravite)
Description:	Lustrous translucent brown dravite tourmaline crystals on one face of a thick vein of muscovite mica. Many of the dravite crystals are terminated, with three-faced pyramidal termination faces. The dravite fluoresces faint orange under UV illumination. Ex. Henry D. Miller (1838-1919 or 1920) collection, (see Final Disposition Of Some American Collections Of Minerals, Frederick A. Canfield, 1923), bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1909; ex. Loomis-Chaffee School
Overall Size:	8x7x5 cm
Crystals:	2-19 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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