2.7" Black Tourmaline (Schorl) Crystal Cluster - Namibia

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2.7" Black Tourmaline (Schorl) Crystal Cluster - Namibia
Now that I have access to the animations I can bring all my silliest ideas to life (no sound)
The Schorl pikmin model was a birthday gift from @starryeyedess <3
Etched Aquamarine, Schorl and Feldspar. Erongo Region, Erongo, Namibia https://www.goldenhourminerals.com
Schorl With Quartz | Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
This breathtaking specimen features a cluster of flawless black tourmaline crystals with stunning luster and sharp terminations, elegantly set on a white snow albite & Muscovite matrix.
From bulachai mine district roundu skardu gilgit baltistan.
Photo by: shigar_gemstone
Black Tourmaline (Schorl) — one of the most geometrically striking varieties of the tourmaline group. Tourmaline itself is a complex boro-silicate, and schorl is its iron-rich end member: Na(Fe²⁺)₃Al₆(BO₃)₃Si₆O₁₈(OH)₄. The black crystals are prismatic, striated lengthwise, and often terminate in trigonal pyramids.
This Namibian specimen forms an X-shape — two crystals interpenetrating at an angle, a natural expression of the hexagonal crystal system’s threefold symmetry.
Why collectors love schorl:
• Piezoelectric and pyroelectric — it generates electric charge under pressure or temperature change
• Pegmatite-formed — grows slowly in boron-rich granite melts
• Universally associated with “grounding” energy in metaphysical circles
• Perfectly paired with smoky quartz and feldspar in raw matrix
Schorl is the most common tourmaline on Earth, but quality aesthetic clusters like this one — sharp, glossy, undamaged — are surprisingly rare.
dis is halloween
another ocs that belongs to me and my bf. bixbite as the monster plant (bf's) and schorl as mad scientist. that has a crush on that monster plant
There is one aquamarine crystal on this black tourmaline & cleavelandite specimen. I didn’t notice it until today.