Tourmaline var. Fluor-buergerite (TYPE LOCALITY)

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RARE, lustrous, chocolate-brown Fluor-buergerite crystals to 1.2 cm are aesthetically distributed across the Quartz rhyolite matrix. A ONE-TIME FIND in Mexico, this rare variety of Tourmaline was found in the 60's by a miner who brought the lot to Tucson for sale. He died shortly thereafter, and to my knowledge nobody has yet rediscovered his exact locality. As it stands, Mexquitic de Carmona Municipality is the TYPE LOCALITY. Buergerite was named after Martin Buerger, an MIT mineralogy professer who invented the X-ray precession camera. Previously in the collection of J. Cilen. You get the beautiful display quality small cabinet specimen here with all those crystals - extremely rich for species! Valued $1500 From the collection of East Coast collector, George Elling, specializing in historic minerals of the East Coast and minerals from the development of old European mineralogy.