near
Bodenmays, at Karinbrida in Sweden, and near Bo-vey in Devonshire.
Small brilliant crystals are met with, imbedded in decomposed felspar,
at Andreasberg, in the Hartz mountains, forming the variety called
aphrigite. Ru-bellite occurs in a species of lithomarge, near
Ekaterinen-burg in Siberia ; pale yellowish-brown crystals are found in
talc at Windisch Kappell, in Carinthia; white and variegated colored
specimens come from St. Gothard and Siberia, the first imbedded in
dolomite.
In
the United States, some magnificent specimens of red and green
tourmalines were found in 1829 at Paris, State of Maine; some
transparent crystals from that locality exceed two inches in diameter,
and very frequently one inch, and present a clear red color internally,
surrounded by green, or are red at one extremity and green at the
other. Blue and pink varieties, most commonly imbedded in lep-idolite,
are yet occasionally found in this locality.
Red
and green tourmalines occur also at Chesterfield, Mass., in a narrow
vein of granite traversing gneiss; the crystals are commonly small and
curved, nearly opaque, and exceedingly frangible. Green crystals often
contain distinct prisms of a. red color, especially when they occur in
smoky quartz; blue tourmalines also occur at this locality, and are
accompanied by albite.
The
Russian Mineralogical Museum was supplied, in 1832, by its minister,
Baron Crudner, with specimens of fifty pounds weight, containing the
rock of green and red tourmalines, from the Chesterfield locality.
At
Goshen, Mass., similar varieties occur, and the blue tourmaline is met
with in greater perfection; very perfect crystals, of a dark-brown
color, occur imbedded in mica slate, at Monroe, Conn.; the crystals are
commonly from one to two inches long, and nearly as broad, and
uniformly they are perfectly terminated at the two extremities.
