Aquamarine with Schorl on Feldspar

The main crystal is 83 mm long and with mirror smooth double terminations. This crystal, the other main aquamarine crystal forming the vertical of the ‘T’ as well as a few smaller crystals are set across a white feldspar matrix dotted with black schorl crystals. The piece is illustrated at p.8 of volume II of ‘Namibia Minerals and Localities’ by Ludi von Bezing, Rainer Bode & Steffen Jahn. It came out as part of the famous find in August 2009. Marshall Sussman acquired the piece on one of his trips to Namibia.

Photo by László Kupi