Dravite Gallery

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Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	May Downs Station, Mount Isa district, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia A 7.0 by 4.5 cms complex group of very dark brown crystals. JSS specimen and photograph.
© JSS	Photo ID: 107110 View Count: 195
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	May Downs Station, Mount Isa district, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia A 7.3 by 4.2 cms doubly terminated crystal. JSS specimen and photograph.
© JSS	Photo ID: 107111 View Count: 153
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	May Downs Station, Mount Isa district, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia A 4.7 by 3.2 cms doubly terminated complex crystal. JSS specimen and photograph.
© 2007 JSS	Photo ID: 133368 View Count: 144
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	May Downs Station, Mount Isa district, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia 4.9 x 3.9 x 3.5 cm. A wonderfully formed crystal of dark "dravite" tourmaline from Australia, from the notable California collection of Charles Hansen. What is remarkable about this crystal is its eye-catching staggered terminations - it is actually a compound crystal composed of dozens of intergrown sub-crystals. What may appear to be rough spots ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 162724 View Count: 131
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	May Downs Station, Mount Isa district, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia A large and complex pair of interpenetrating crystals of the variety of Tourmaline, Dravite. specimen size = 8.8 x 5 x 4.3 cm.
© Russell G. Rizzo	Photo ID: 140569 View Count: 126
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	May Downs Station, Mount Isa district, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia 8.4 x 8.4 x 6.2 cm. A wonderfully formed pair of dravite crystals composed of smaller, complex, interpenetrating crystals from Australia. The lustrous, blocky, black crystals look just like columnar basalt. Complete-all-around with only modest contacting on one end. A classic example for the locality.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 260143 View Count: 25
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈], Chlorite Group, Albite : Na[AlSi₃O₈]
	Slaughteryard Creek, May Downs Station, Mount Isa district, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia Brown tourmaline crystals in chlorite schist from Slaughteryard Creek. Biggest tourmaline crystal is 1cm.
	Photo ID: 208306 View Count: 66
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈], Quartz : SiO₂
	Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Tiny dravite crystals in a quartz cavity. Field of view: 6mm.
© Judy Rowe	Photo ID: 189729 View Count: 154
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia Dravite crystals in a miarolitic cavity. Field of view 3mm.
© Ryan Eagle	Photo ID: 231311 View Count: 37
Dravite : [Na][Mg₃][Al₆][(OH)₃\|OH\|(BO₃)₃\|Si₆O₁₈]
	Mitchell Plateau Mine (deposit), Pilbara Region, Western Australia, Australia Brown tourmaline (var. Dravite) from Western Australia (Yinnietherra Station) Size 65 mm x 60 mm x 65 mm
© Oleg Lopatkin	Photo ID: 170772 View Count: 229