Item #301

$125.00
Dravite
Collis P. Huntington State Park, Bethel, Connecticut

This large specimen of dravite (probably) has three terminal faces on one end. One edge of one terminal face is missing (common, perhaps the rule, for this locality). For a while, you could collect these tourmalines in the state park. Now it is not allowed. This is one of the largest pieces ever found there. It measures 8.5 x 5.5 x 5 cm. I say "probably" dravite because as far as I know, these pieces have never been analyzed. Some, however, show a distinct golden brown color which suggests dravite rather than schorl. This piece was one of a hundred or collected in the dirt below the ledge were many were found in a chloritic schist matrix. It took 30 years for collectors to think to dig in the dirt below the ledge...and they found the biggest and best crystals ever when they did. I was there on the first day...