Tourmaline | Paraiba & Maine Tourmaline | Pink & Green & Watermelon Tourmaline
USA Tourmaline (Maine, California, NY City)Maine Tourmaline Mining
Bastin's "Pegmatites in Maine".A complete book on Maine's Tourmalines !!
George Frederick Kunz on Maine Tourmaline
Kunz report in USGS 1908 on "Maine Tourmaline"
Another USGS 1913 report on "Tourmaline in Maine"
On the discovery of "Maine Tourmaline" Descriptions of Several top piece of Mineral Specimens
Pala Tourmaline
USGS 1916 Description of pink and green Tourmaline pockets.
USGS 1906 King mine Pink and Green Tourmaline production overview.
USGS 1907 has a lot: Pink, Green Pala Tourmaline and a new Tourmaline pocket
USGS 1912: Description of purchase Morgan/American Museum Pink Tourmaline pieces at end of chapter
More USA Tourmaline Localities
Exceptional New York Blue Tourmaline (Indicolite)
Black Tourmaline (Schorl)
Himalaya Mine and "Black Tourmaline"
Delaware County top quality "Black Tourmaline"
Other Tourmaline Websites
The famous Cuprian Paraiba Elbaite (PDF!). Read the story in "Mineralogical Record" and view all the professional photos of the best crystals and cut stones.
Also see Elbaite fact sheet on Webmineral. A great image overview of the Tourmaline mines in Afghanistan and Pakistan A great Tourmaline factsheet can be found on Mineral Kingdom and another great German site with images and extensive crystal structure info is Mineralienatlas. There is always Wikipedia. Focused on the famous Maine Tourmalines is the Maine Geological Survey.
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General Tourmaline Overviews
Streeter: Tourmaline Locations and Value
Wodiska: 10 Pages on Tourmalines
Feuchtwanger: Tourmalines (also origin of colors)
Tourmaline PropertiesTourmaline Other |
