Black tourmaline with albite, smoky quartz, hyalite, and an aquamarine Magnetite taking on an other-worldly intense

taking on an other-worldly intense cobalt blue glow

It can cause the hydroxyapophyllite crystals growing over it to glow a faint red—try it in a dark room with a strong flashlight

In Atlas Mountain Jasper

it has a frosted luster with a sheen effect

The soft oxidized matrix will leave dark dusty staining on surfaces and your skin

Black tourmaline with albite, smoky quartz, hyalite, and an aquamarine Magnetite taking on an other-worldly intenseLocale: Erongo Mountain, Namibia Approx dimensions: 3. 25 x 3 x 1. 75" Approx weight: 417g This large glossy black tourmaline, known as schorl, is accompanied by smaller schorl crystals, smoky quartz, and albite. Some of the smaller schorls have mercedes terminations. It's unclear to me if the main schorl is a single crystal or some product of twinning, but it is a large blocky piece with an offset split through the middle. Erongo schorl typically has