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en: Tourmaline – de: Turmalin – fr: Tourmaline – es: {{{Name Spanish Wikipedia}}}{{{Spanish Synonym}}}
several Tourmaline minerals
several Tourmaline minerals
Description : Deutsch: Turmalin ist selbst kein Mineral, sondern eine Gruppe eigenständiger Minerale mit ähnlichen Eigenschaften und dem gleichen Kristallsystem
English: Tourmaline is not a mineral itself, but a group of self-contained minerals whith similar attributes and the same crystal system
Italiano: Tormalina non è una specie minerale bensì un gruppo mineralogico che comprende diverse specie aventi catatteristiche simili e medesima classe cristallografica
Other languages: bg:Турмалин – ca:Turmalina – cs:Turmalín – es:Turmalina – fi:Turmaliini – he:טורמלין – ja:電気石 – lt:Turmalinas – lv:Turmalīns – nl:Toermalijn – no:Turmalin – pl:Turmalin – pt:Turmalina – ro:Turmalină – ru:Турмалин – sk:Turmalín – sv:Turmaliner – zh:電氣石 –
Reference : http://www.mindat.org/min-4003.html
Minerals and Varieties [ edit ]
Buergerite (category ) - black, brown - Pleochroism
Chromdravite (category )
Dravite (category ) - colourless, blue, light to dark brown - mostly Pleochroism
Elbaite (category )
Achroite category - colourless
Chromian Elbaite -
Cuprian Elbaite -
Indicolite (category )- blue
Rubellite (category ) - pink, red
Siberite -
Tsilaisite -
Verdelite (category )- green
Feruvite (category )
Foitite (category )
Liddicoatite (category ) - pink, green, green-brown, yellow-brown
Magnesiofoitite (category )
Olenite (category )
Povondraite (category ) - black
Rossmanite (category )
Schorl (category ) - black, blue-black, brown-black - Pleochroism
Uvite (category ) - black, grey, brown, green, red - Pleochroism
Vanadiumdravite (category )
12g watermelon tourmaline from Brazil, partially polished