This is an extremely impressive specimen, visually, and quite unusual for the County for both its size and display. Schorls from San Diego are rare. Big ones, all the more so. This is a 5.5-inch-long (14cm), doubly-terminated schorl, perched on a doubly-terminated quartz. The whole cluster is a floater, complete all around and fully terminated all around. It is a miracle it survived at all, a few repairs on the stalk or not (repaired 3x). Larson ranked this as one of the top schorls from the County, and certainly for a matrix piece it presents dramatically. Other than the repairs themselves, it is pristine and undamaged elsewhere