AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Mexico > Fluor-buergerite Tourmaline (formerly Buergerite) |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 77364 |
Mineral: | Fluor-buergerite Tourmaline (formerly Buergerite) |
Locality: | near Mexquitic, San Luis Potosí, Mexico (Type Locality for Fluor-buergerite Tourmaline (formerly Buergerite)) |
Description: | Lustrous brown buergerite tourmaline crystal with no attached matrix. An old buergerite tourmaline specimen from the type locality (the miner of this rare tourmaline died without divulging the exact locality and it is lost possibly forever). |
Overall Size: | 7x6x6 mm |
Crystals: | 7 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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