"The ""Candelabra"" Tourmaline  was mined in 1972 by Bill Larson at the Tourmaline Queen mine in San Diego County's Pala District. ""What a sight,"" he  recalled  years later, ""over a foot long."" (It actually is about a foot and a half.) It now is on public display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. (Photo: Harold & Erica Van Pelt)"
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