Schorl Tourmaline (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Item Description

Tourmaline is one of the most popular minerals out there, and even fine quality, opaque, black Schorls are sought after these days. Schorl is well-known around the world, but it's hard to find top quality crystals from any locality today. This full sized thumbnail specimen is a wonderful and showy crystal group featuring superb quality, jet-black Schorl crystals with beautiful compressed trigonal form and glistening luster which are intergrown to create a fantastic, three-dimensional piece with excellent aesthetics. It's mostly complete, as nearly every termination is undamaged (a few crystals are even doubly-terminated), and the only real damage is on the underside. A fantastic overall display quality thumbnail that would make a great addition to a Tourmaline collection or a suite of Namibian minerals. The largest Schorl measures 2.3 cm long. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#13040). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).