Black tourmaline in albite matrix with hyalite and minor fluorite

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Black tourmaline in albite matrix with hyalite and minor fluoriteLocale: Erongo Mountain, Namibia Approx dimensions: 5 x 3. 25 x 3" Approx weight: 603g This is a great "hodgepodge" specimen, featuring a large cluster of botryoidal hyalite on a Dalmatian spotty matrix of white albite, black tourmaline, and smoky quartz. The crystals of black tourmaline, known as schorl, are well formed and many have the 'Mercedes' termination characteristic of the Erongo region. A few small cubic fluorite crystals also spot the

with peachy-red material around it

this quartz cluster is the definition of pretty-ugly

as does the interior

Broken quartz crystals along the side of the piece have left a pattern of hexagons in red chalcedony of the base

Approx weight: 282g

Option C gets the "ugly duckling" discount for having an especially flat appearance

Approx size: 3 x 1

Some of the radial growth appears more like stacked thin parallel faces

106g E 2

with small quartz crystals sprinkle on top like an odd little bowl of cereal

Ripples and flow patterns indicate water was involved in the deposition of the brown sandy-textured layered crust

❗Sunlight will fade the color in fluorite