Tourmaline

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:電気でんき石せき – lt:Turmalinas – lv:Turmalīns – nl:Toermalijn – no:Turmalin – pl:Turmalin – pt:Turmalina – ro:Turmalină – ru:Турмалин – sk:Turmalín – sv:Turmaliner – zh:電氣でんき石せき –

Reference:  http://www.mindat.org/min-4003.html

Minerals and Varieties

• 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