#schorl — Public Fediverse posts
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#Aquamarine, #Schorl and #Quartz on #Feldspar
Baltistan, #Pakistan
Photo by Anton Watzl
By #GeologicalWondersToo / Karen Kemp
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#Aquamarine with associates #Muscovite and #Schorl
#China
Photo by Saphira Minerals
By #GeologicalWondersToo / Karen Kemp
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#Aquamarine with #Schorl & #Albite
#Pakistan
Photo by Noor Ullah
By #GeologicalWondersToo / Karen Kemp
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#Schorl & #Fluorite
#Pakistan
Photo by Noor Ullah
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#Aquamarine with #Schorl and Microcline #Feldspar from Shigar Valley Skardu #Pakistan.
Photo Copyright ©️ Muhammad Majid
By #GeologyWonders
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#Schorl (a kind of #Tourmaline) embedded in a nice piece of elvan - the #Cornish name for a particular type of hard granite with these large isolated tourmaline crystals.
#Fossicked from #MineWaste at the top of the large tailings dam at the eastern end of the Wheal Maid valley. This was constructed from waste rock excavated from Mount Wellington, a mine a few miles away during the late 70s. This specimen is more likely to originate there than any of the many older mines nearby.
mindat.org Specimen ID: 08U-EGH
Field of View: 20 mm
Largest Crystal Size: 7 mm -
CW: fossicking in Cornwall
Some larger #schorl #tourmaline crystals I managed to find inside some #luxullianite. Tourmaline is recognisable by it's long prismatic 'habit', the crystals also have a tendency to change colour along their length. Big ones are valuable as gemstones and apparently they might have been used as navigational aids for #Vikings (used to detect the sun's position pre-dawn or in cloudy conditions).