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English: Tourmaline
Locality: Tourmaline Queen Mine (MS 6458; Tourmaline Queen No. 3), Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala; Queen), Pala District, San Diego County, California, USA (Locality at mindat.org)
This is a classic multicolored Queen tourmaline with vivid pink core and a blue cap. There are a few dings to one edge and on one side at the bottom, but otherwise it is in good shape. It also shows unusual striations atop where, presumably, other crystals of some mineral once were attached in the pocket and impeded growth of the secondary blue cap atop the pink core (the blue cap is half a mm raised above these striations, supporting this hypothesis). Interestingly, this piece was one of a group that appears in the advertisement in the famous Lapidary Journal issue from late 1972 announcing the find. That issue has the article "The Queen Reigns Again," and later in the issue there is an ad for the bluecaps. This specimen is one of the tourmalines in that ad (#11). Chuck Houser somehow foudn the owner and purchased it from a collector in Nebraska who bought it directly from Bill after he saw the advert and article 33 years ago now. I have the original documentation including: dated invoices from Pala Intl to the purchaser in their original envelope; a note that they had 7 other requests for this piece, listed as #11 in the catalogue-style advertisement; and a truly amazing long letter from now-infamous dealer Bill Larson explaining why he thought these new treasures he had dug would be a great invesment. Overall, this is a highly collectible piece with a neat bit of mineral-market history attached. And, as we know now, this bluecap pocket became the single greatest, most famous tourmaline find in America and remains to this day the most famous single pocket ever hit here. Bill's advice was good. 4 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm
Deutsch: Turmalin
Fundort: Tourmaline Queen Mine (MS 6458; Tourmaline Queen No. 3), Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala; Queen), Pala District, San Diego County, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://www.mindat.org/photo-29508.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
Alternative names
Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus
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creator QS:P170,Q56247090

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