Tourmaline (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Tourmaline

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Currently 32 different mineral species of the "tourmaline group" are delineated by the distribution of the major elements of which they are comprised. So, a single shard of tourmaline with slight variations in chemistry often contains multiple species of the mineral, even if they all formed in the same geologic event.

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