This actually reminded me of a few rocks that I need to take pics of & post. You'll see why when I do (maybe  ). Gonna have to wait until I'm not at work though.

Thank you for your input, Dennis. I was wondering what you had to say about this "tabular tourmaline".
I haven't had time to go thru all the pictures of schorl on Mindat yet, and I do have some Big Crabtree material I will be taking a closer look at. There are many similarities. The problem for me is going to be finding the reason the schorl from here looks so different, and getting a picture of it.
I'd love to ship it off somewhere for laboratory analysis which, of course, would ultimately have to be done to really answer any of these questions. The last time I looked into recent research on Schorl, they were thinking about coming up with a half dozen new mineral names to stick in between schorl and chrome dravite. I'd be dead by the time the lab had any results!
Maybe tabular tourmaline is not that rare, but there has always been something that bothers me about calling the stuff from this one Wake County site simply schorl. If the specimens weren't so small I would have better pictures to show you.
Thanks for your help.

Thank you, Dennis.
I think I came across that article a year or two ago. You may have brought it up. It's good to have the information written down somewhere.