Black Tourmaline With Mica StandingThis is a natural piece of Black Tourmaline, aka Schorl. Its bottom is cut so that it stands upright, with rough sides and an unpolished termination on top. It also has some shiny silver, orange, and white Mica on it. This is a self standing point. Black Tourmaline is also known as Schorl Tourmaline. The name is derived from a Sri Lankan regional term called turmali, which was a word used to refer to yellow zircon. This came about because of a mistake