Dravite Tourmaline (rare SWISS locality)

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The renowned Lengenbach Quarry in the Swiss Alps is one of the great species-producing localities in the world. As of this listing, 172 species have been reported from this quarry, and it's the type locality for 48 of them! There are all kinds of minerals found in the sugary white Dolomite at Lengenbach, from common to incredibly rare. There are even TOURMALINES at this locality, and here we have a very rare example featuring a beautiful, gemmy, golden-green colored, striated prism of Dravite measuring about 2 mm, with a few smaller Dravites tucked behind it, sitting in a little open vug. There are even some tiny metallic golden Pyrite crystals near the Dravites, how often do you see Tourmaline with Pyrite!? A cool micro specimen and a rare locality piece for Tourmaline, so don't miss out. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974. The piece is accompanied by a label from the Naturhistorisches Museum Bern (The Natural History Museum in Bern) (#L 15439) and was collected in 1980.