The Tourmaline Species, Rossmanite

Transparent, colorless rossmanite from Elba, Italy, capped with black foitite on top of fractured elbaite.

Image courtesy of Fredrico Pezzotta, Milan, Italy.

The Discovery

Properties

Localities (with images, when available)

Austria - Eibenstein an der Thaya

Canada -

Manitoba - Tanco Mine

Manitoba - Red Cross Pegmatite

Boliva - Llallagua (no evidence of rossmanite)

China - Koktokay No. 3 Pegmatite

Congo - unspecified locality

Czech Republic -

Rožná

Lastovicky

Dobra Voda

Radkovice

England - Cornwall

Italy- Elba

Madagascar - Anjahamiary

Namibia - Omapyo

Nigeria- Ibadan

Sweden - Utoe Island

Russia -

Ural Mountains - Rezh district - Lipovka Pegmatite Field

Russian Far East -Turgenevskoye Pegmatite Field

Tanzania - Sanga Sanga

USA -

Maine - Black Mountain

Maine - Mount Mica

Vietnam - Minh Tien

Publications

References to rossmanite