Description
Superb specimen of large elongated crystals of black to brown dravite in a mica-rich schistose gangue. Dravite is a variety of tourmaline.
Very nice set of tourmaline crystals from Val d’Ossola, northern Italy.
Mineral collected in the XIXth century and delivered with its old handwritten label of the establishments Deyrolle, naturalist dealer in Paris.
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