How many carats is the world's largest tourmaline?
In the Guiness world records book the largerst registered
tourmaline is 51.77 cts, found in June 2009, othervise tuormaline
inside the smoky qurtz iz measured for about 11 kilos. I've found
the in 2005 apiece oif riverstone from river Drava near Maribor ,
Slovenia , EU a pice of tourmaline with 7315 cts ( as Slovnia is
well knowna home laned od dravite-tourmaline /tschermak, 1883,
dobova near Dravograd/drauburg ) , without the X-rays
spectrography, this one piece could be ferrodravite, chroma dravite
or exceptionally schroll.verdelite ( as the mountain of Pohorje is
near this place- with the pegamatite and granite geol.ogic
environment ). Be so or not to be so- I don't allow any cut-off for
spectrography to reduce the weight of that stone ). I've named this
stone Marica's Tourmaline ( or MARIZITE (') due the 110th
anniversary of Slovene soubrete soprano Marica Brumen Lubejeva, the
first poerformer of Floramye by Ivo Tijardtovich,in 1926 -otherwise
due my late autnt Marica Kuss ne Cernej, died and residing before
at 1094 Bromley Avenue , 0766 Teaneck , New Yersey, who was my
donator- for master degree finishing in 1998 at Faculty of
Econnomics ;University of Ljubljana): best greatings to Mme Dorothy
and Kathleen MIchelle Kuss ( Mote Marine Laboratorise, Sarasota, FL
) and prof. Anthony Milton Jenkins ( University of Baltimore, John
Merrick Business Scool - I was his student here in Ljubljna's
University ). Basis data are _ 7315 cts, density 3.1 g/cm3,
hardness at least 7 , ferromagnetic , piezzomagnetic and
pyromagnetic effects are present ( the last one up to 3 h and 17
minutes of duration ). Best regards Iztok Segula M.Sc., Ljubljana,
Slovenia
