I stumbled on this Master's Thesis from the University of Louisiana and thought it would be interesting to many of our tourmaline fans:
An overview of Tourmaline Mineralogy from Gem Tourmaline Producing Pegmatite Districts in Africa
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcon ... context=td
An overview of tourmaline mineralogy......
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