Tourmalinites occur in early-Paleozoic metamorphic rocks of the Gemeric Unit near Zlatá Idka village, Western Carpathians, eastern Slovakia. Tourmaline compositions, analyzed with the electron microprobe, include a wide range of tourmaline species. Tourmaline in tourmalinites from Zlatá Idka is compositionally variable, with the dominant substitution Mg-Fe 2+ consistent with prevalent schorl-dravite compositions and their fluor-and oxy-dominant counterparts -fluorschorl, fluor-dravite, oxy-schorl and oxy-dravite. Portions of tourmaline are enriched in Ca in the form of the fluor-uvite and magnesio-lucchesiite components. A subset of the compositions has Ti > 0.25 atoms per formula unit (apfu) and corresponds to the hypothetical "magnesio-dutrowite", Mg-dominant analogue of dutrowite. In addition, some of the tourmalines are X-site vacant and classified as foitite. The crystal chemistry of tourmaline is complex and influenced by several exchange mechanisms, including Mg(Fe) -