Dravite (Tourmaline) (Specimen #100257)

Mineral(s): Dravite 

Location: Tait farm, Dungannon Township, Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario 

Size: 8.6 x 6.3 x 4.5 cm 

Description:   A cluster of shiny, jet-black fairly well-formed dravite crystals on matrix from a famous, old location. The dravites from this locality look a lot like schorl, although they are brown in thin slivers. The specimen has some contacts but presents well.

The Tait Farm is located south of Bancroft, Ontario and features a relatively homogeneous, white, graphic K-feldspar and quartz-bearing pegmatite (with some hornblende and mica) containing abundant tourmaline.