Black Tourmaline A Grade Schorl - Per Kilo

Black tourmaline is a hexagonal crystal and part of the aluminium borosilicate family, and specifically, it includes magnesium, iron, and other metal elements that determine its colour. It's found on every continent in the world, and the most common colour is black. Although common, this A Grade Black Tourmaline is stunning.

Schorl is best known as "Black Tourmaline". Although other forms of Tourmaline may be black, Schorl is exclusively black and, unlike other Tourmaline forms, is never transparent or even translucent. In a few rare instances, it may be intergrown together with Elbaite, with a specimen being part Schorl and part Elbaite.

Schorl is the most common form of Tourmaline. It may be highly lustrous and form in beautiful crystals, and is one of the most aesthetic black minerals known. It may form in tiny dense needles within a Quartz crystal where it is known as Tourmalinated Quartz.