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  Tourmaline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The most common variety of tourmaline is schorl, first described by Mathesius in 1524.
The meaning of the word "schorl" is a mystery, but it may be a Scandinavian word.
Schorl and lithium-rich tourmalines are usually found in granite and granite pegmatite.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schorl   (600 words)

  
 Schorl - LoveToKnow 1911
The schorl rocks are crystalline aggregates of quartz and tourmaline.
Schorl rocks often also contain varieties of white mica which are rich in fluorine and lithium; in addition apatite is usually present.
It is commonly found that the schorl is of a brown colour in the interior of the crystals but blue at the edges; probably the brown is primary or has been derived from biotite, but the blue principally from the replacement of felspar.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Schorl   (1047 words)

  
 SCHORL - Online Information article about SCHORL
inch to several feet, and vein-like masses of grey schorl rock branching and uniting are thus produced.
surface of corroded crystals of primary brown schorl.
sandstone may yield a schorl rock which can hardly be distinguished from one derived from a fine-grained granite.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAR_SCY/SCHORL.html   (1404 words)

  
 VUG-SCHORL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Schorl tourmaline in vugs of decomposing brown rock with mica flakes in it.
Schorl crystals inside the vug with unidentified clear crystals growing on the tips and sides.
There is a schorl crystal on the outside of the geode 3 3/4 inches long.
www.earth-energy.com /VUG-SCHORL.html   (169 words)

  
 SCHORL (complex Sodium Iron Boro-Aluminum Silicate)
Schorl is the most common mineral in the Tourmaline Group.
Schorl can be a major component of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Long thin crystals of schorl are common as inclusions in quartz, forming the ornamental stone called "Tourmalinated Quartz".
mineral.galleries.com /minerals/silicate/schorl/schorl.htm   (308 words)

  
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Schorl is found in all of these environments.
Schorl tourmaline spray in granite, near Fern, Florence County, WI.
FOREST COUNTY: Schorl tourmaline occurs as "clumps and sprays" in several small pegmatites along state highway 55 south of Alvin.
www.uwrf.edu /~wc01/tourmaline.htm   (637 words)

  
 War of Darkness (TFF Royalty only) [Archive] - The Final Fantasy Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Schorl avoids meeting The gazes of the gathered and sighs once again as he rises from his chair and makes his way to the door, it swings open and he turns, his gaze sweeps the room, a sadness and regret hiddem within his eyes.
Schorl bows once more as he steps from the room and out into the courtyard, he seats himself on a grassy knoll and places his palms against his knees, his breathing slows and he gives the impression of a statue as he sinks deep inside himself and empties his thoughts.
Schorl turns and surveys the demonic horder frothing and biting as they collapse in small scufles amongst themselves as they grow tired of the wait, Schorl shakes his head sadly and metally calls to the dragon riders to be ready.
www.thefinalfantasy.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-27965.html   (15814 words)

  
 Audrey Lynn Pegmatite, Anza, Riverside County, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This mining claim produces apatite, quartz, beryl, tourmaline (schorl and multicolored), spodumene, mica, schorl, spessartite garnet, monazite, manganocolumbite, mangantantalite, fluorapatite and microlite.
There have been schorl the size of toilet paper rolls extracted with quarter size spessartite garnets attached/intergrown.
The best minerals found are blue aquamarine crystals, superbly terminated schorl crystals, schorl with spessartite inclusions, quartz crystals, spessartite garnets, feldspar crystals, axinite, and more.
www.gemandmineral.com /audreylynn.html   (453 words)

  
 Trinity Mineral Co - The 2001 Munich Show
Fully terminated and lustrous crystal of schorl is attached to three smoky quartz crystals.
Fully terminated and lustrous crystal of schorl is attached to an 8 cm long smoky quartz crystal.
This was one of the better quality specimens available from Schmidt as the schorls are very lustrous and the doubly terminated crystals were uncommon in the lot that he had at Munich.
www.trinityminerals.com /ms2001/schorl.shtml   (473 words)

  
 Exceptional Specimens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
There is a huge schorl crystal, 12 cm in length and almost 4 cm in diameter.
It is perched on very a large albite crystal, fully terminated, just like the schorl itself.
Most lazurite crystals are usually found as single crystals in marble, but this piece has a display face entirely covered with them.
www.khyberminerals.com /exceptional_specimens.htm   (131 words)

  
 Schorl | Mineralium.com - Fine Mineral Specimens
Very aesthetic small cabinet specimen with deep fl prismatic crystals of Schorl on a nicely contrasting matrix of white Albite.
Spectacular small cabinet specimen with numerous intergrown crystals of deep fl Schorl on a nicely contrasting matrix of white Albite.
Aesthetic cabinet specimen with deep fl prismatic crystals of Schorl on a nicely contrasting matrix of white Albite and associated with minor Muscovite.
www.mineralium.com /index.php?lang=ENG&list=TSB   (244 words)

  
 Mineral Specimens- Gallery 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Similar to the above; it has a dark green cap, and some pretty feldspar crystals at the base, the larges of which is almost 2 cm across.
Half a ball-shaped cluster of blady muscovite with a terminated schorl crystal on the other side.
A doubly terminated schorl crystal with muscovite on the reverse.
www.khyberminerals.com /g1.htm   (227 words)

  
 Mineral description : Schorl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Schorl is the iron rich member of the tourmaline family.
Pegmatites and granites, also in some metamorphic rock.
Commonly of radiating groups of schorl in rose quartz.
www.geology.neab.net /minerals/schorl.htm   (118 words)

  
 Schorl: Schorl mineral information and data.
There is no specific data on health dangers or toxicity for this mineral, however you should always treat mineral samples as potentially toxic/dangerous and use sensible precautions when handling them.
Barsanov, G.P. and Yakovleva, M.E. (1965) Tourmalines of schorl composition.
Ondrus, P., Vrana, S. & Maslan, M. (2002): Chemical composition and crystal structure refinement of schorl from the Lundazi pegmatite field, Zambia.
www.mindat.org /min-3578.html   (364 words)

  
 Mineral Specimen for sale of Schorl Tourmaline in Quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Schorl Tourmaline in Quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
This mineral specimen of Schorl Tourmaline in Quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil is available for sale from John Betts - Fine Minerals, mineral dealer located in New York City, New York.
Description: Terminated crystal of fl schorl tourmaline 5 cm long partially embedded in the side of a smoky quartz crystal 10 cm long.
www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com /jhbnyc/gifs/33529.htm   (173 words)

  
 Online Minerals
Jet fl schorl tourmaline on a matrix of creamy colored feldspar which has a number of schorls embedded in the matrix.
The top of the schorl crystal is made of numerous rod-like crystals that make up the single crystal.
Jet fl Schorl with a single 1.8 cm white to very pale blue crystal of goshenite (the clear, white or pale variety of aquamarine), is perched amongst a cluster of radiating schorl.
www.onlineminerals.com /minerals.asp?letter=S   (237 words)

  
 Alan Guisewite's Mineral Collection Images: Gemstones Page
This one's got a cloudy termination and schorl inclusions (large photo) near the base and comes from the Zelatoya Vada Mine, near Rangkul, East of Murgab, Tajikistan.
A miniature comprising foitite, dravite, and schorl tourmalines from the Ameib Farm, Usakos, Karibib District, Namibia.
Schorl is the iron-rich fl opaque variety of tourmaline.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~adg/adg-pgimages.html   (6059 words)

  
 AfricanRocks.com: Erongo Schorl
In recent years there has not been much Schorl coming out of The Erongo, as mining in the area is dangerous.
The minerals often occur in somewhat inaccessible veins, along sheer faces of rock.
General access to the area has also been limited, which has resulted in little Schorl being made available.
www.africanrocks.com /html/0203.html   (199 words)

  
 Amethyst Galleries - TOURMALINE GROUP
The iron rich schorl is the most abundant tourmaline and is fl and opaque.
Although too opaque to be used as a gemstone, schorl is used as an ornamental stone when found as inclusions in quartz, a stone is called "tourmalinated quartz".
The two other more common tourmalines; dravite and uvite are much less common than elbaite or schorl, but they are getting noticed for their beautiful specimens.
www.galleries.com /minerals/silicate/tourmali.htm   (482 words)

  
 The Script of Sailor Jupiter: Broken Heart by Jeffrey Anderson
Schorl pales, staring at the ruined box next to his foot.
Schorl plows her through the brick wall, stirring up dust.
Schorl is holding up badly injured and limp Jupiter by wrapping his arm around Jupiter's neck.
pluto.spaceports.com /~srenergy/MangaJupiterBH/bhScript6.html   (1419 words)

  
 Schorl - complete list of mineral names
Schorl mineral data, information about Schorl, its properties and worldwide locations.
Schorl - Mineraldatenblatt - Steine, Edelsteine, Mineralien und Fossilien einfach erklärt
Schorl is not a member of any public groups...
www.absoluterocknet.com /complete_list_of_mineral_and_crystal_names/Schorl.asp   (564 words)

  
 Introducing Schorl - The Other Side forums - suitable for mature readers!
Schorl, if you need ANYTHING at all, just go ahead and PM me. I'll help you out with all my Pooftastic powers of ISH.
I realized Schorl right after I made that post that I used a gender specific pronoun without first knowing what it was.
If nothing is better than eternal happiness, yet a cheese sandwich is better than nothing, is not a cheese sandwich better than eternal happiness...
www.matazone.co.uk /forums/index.php?showtopic=4213   (1110 words)

  
 Jacksonville Gem and Mineral Society, Inc.
The No.l pegmatite was out front and, as the information said, this is where the schorl crystals were found.
We were able to find several nice size boulders that we were able to break up to find some of the fl tourmaline crystals.
Knowing that beryl in the dump is scarce due to the fact that beryl is what they were mining, I was only able to find one small piece; however, Paula managed to find some beryl including a small crystal at the schorl collecting area.
www.jaxgemandmineral.org /hogg.htm   (734 words)

  
 pgS
SCHORL - CA Black compound prismatic xl sections.
SCHORL - CA Black prismatic slender xl sections w/assoc.
SCHORL - CA Coarse fl prismatic groups in quartz or in rock.
www.mineralsunlimited.com /files/pgS.htm   (145 words)

  
 Mineral Photograph and Description of Schorl and Albite from Shengus, Gilgit Div., Pakistan.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mineral Photograph and Description of Schorl and Albite from Shengus, Gilgit Div., Pakistan.
Schorl and Albite from Shengus, Gilgit Div., Pakistan.
Description: Exceptionally aesthetic specimen of well crystallized lustrous fl schorl with small whitish albite crystals on the side and as matrix.
www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com /jhbnyc/1best/5715.htm   (149 words)

  
 Love - The Other Side forums - suitable for mature readers!
You want the person to be happy, for if they're not, you fear they may leave, taking the feeling with them.
I think a lot of times, though not all the time, love is like that - you stay with someone because there is something about them which you like, and which makes you happy.
Like Schorl said there is something about that person which makes you feel good, and therefore the love is an almost purely selfish one.
www.matazone.co.uk /forums/index.php?showtopic=3935&st=50   (2490 words)

  
 Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências - Geochemistry of tourmalines associated with iron formation and quartz veins ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Raman spectra of schorl GRR#794 from Cahuilla Mountain (Riverside, California) and a magnesiofoitite from Honshu (Japan) - available at the Mineral Spectroscopy Server of the California Institute of Technology (http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu) - are presented for comparison.
This is the case of Quartzito tourmaline-bearing quartz veins, whose compositions were also affected by the host rock chemistry.
Tourmalines from Tapera Grande and Quartzito metachert and from Tapera Grande tourmalinite are intermediate schorl- dravite, of syngenetic origin, formed under submarine, sedimentary-exhalative conditions.
www.scielo.br /scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652003000200008&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=en   (4590 words)

  
 R   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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danburite, elbaite, epidote, ferroaxinite, goosecreekite, hambergite, schorl, spinel, stibiotantalite, xenotime.
allanite, almandite, biotite, elbaite, microcline, monazite, quartz, schorl, spessartine, titanite, xenotime, zircon.
www.mineralsocal.org /scfm/california/r.htm   (272 words)

  
 Schorl's Interview
::Sounding bored:: Lady Schorl, leader and Center of the Nightmare Binding.
::A little smirk:: Once I convinced a few unsuspecting Terrans that I was Lord Schorl, just because I felt like playing with them.
I can move freely through Dream and Nightmare, as well as transporting myself and others instantly from the Static--the "physical" plane--to either realm.
www.diasilv.com /tower/schorlrm.html   (1366 words)

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