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        

Mozambique

        Muva                

Namibia 

       Omapyo

Nigeria- Ibadan

Sweden - Utoe Island

Russia

Ural Mountains - Rezh district - Lipovka Pegmatite Field
Russian Far East -Turgenevskoye Pegmatite Field

Tanzania 

Sanga Sanga

United States

Maine - Black Mountain
Maine - Mount Mica
New York - Newcomb

Vietnam - Minh Tien

Publications

References to rossmanite