Description
Sample showing quartz crystals covered with prominent, brilliant, nicely terminated schorl tourmaline rods.
Quite airy and very fragile.
A few crystals of green gilbertite (a variety of mica) are also visible.
Minerals discovered at the Menou quarry in Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie region.
Video of this tourmaline specimen from the Menou quarry in Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn:
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