Schorl Tourmaline (ex Charlie Key Collection)

Item Description

Tourmalines are beloved around the world, and even the black opaque Schorl Tourmalines are highly desirable on the market. Even though most people know Schorl as a species, there are not too many localities producing good quality specimens today. This piece is a wonderful and showy crystal group of fine quality, jet-black prismatic Schorl crystals with beautiful slender form and glistening luster on the prism faces. The terminations have a matte "stepped" appearance, with an almost velvety semi-fibrous appearance. The crystals are intergrown to create a fantastic, three-dimensional piece with excellent aesthetics. It's mostly complete, as nearly every termination is undamaged (a few crystals are even doubly-terminated), and the only real damage is on the underside. A nice piece to add to a Tourmaline collection, a suite of Namibian minerals or a tribue to crystal morphology. The largest Schorl measures 2.7 cm long. Priced in the inventory at $950. Ex Charlie Key collection. Charlie is arguably the most sucessful dealer of the second half of the 20th century, along with being the namesake for TWO mineral species (Keyite and Ludlockite).