| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Mexico > Buergerite Tourmaline |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 56590 |
| Mineral: | Buergerite Tourmaline |
| Locality: | near Mexquitic, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Type Locality for Buergerite) |
| Description: | Lustrous doubly-terminated brown-black buergerite tourmaline crystals on light-colored matrix. An excellent specimen from the type locality (the miner of this rare tourmaline died without ever divulging the exact locality, now lost). |
| Overall Size: | 18x13x10 mm |
| Crystals: | 3-11 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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