Note the aluminum Girling with no translucent reservoir solves your problem of seeing "Black Stuff" in the reservoir. Since it was mentioned several times that it is probably either iron oxide, or carbon black commonly used in rubber parts, did you ever check your debris for magnetism? That would narrow it down to essentially one material.
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