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Tourmaline

Tourmalines have a wide variety of exciting colors with one of the widest color ranges of any gem.

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26.32-ct.

This 26.32-ct. oval pink tourmaline is from Mozambique.

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Rubellite

Trade name for pink, red, purplish red, and orangy red tourmaline.

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Inclusions

It’s not unusual for pink tourmalines to have eye-visible inclusions.

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California

This beautiful tourmaline mineral specimen is from California.

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Columnar Form

The specimen displays tourmaline’s characteristic columnar form.

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Fantastic Crystal

Fantastic pink tourmaline crystal with quartz with other minerals.

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Tourmaline from Luc Yen with three-pointed star
Hue Palace statue carved from Luc Yen tourmaline
Ring containing 7.1 ct green uvite tourmaline from Luc Yen
Farmer digging for tourmaline in Luc Yen, Vietnam
From the Seabed to the Sky
Rutilated quartz
The “Alice” drop earrings feature imperial topaz, amethyst, aquamarine, green and pink tourmaline, morganite and diamond set in 18K white gold.
From left: Amber, blue chrysoprase, jasper with cheetah-like spots, calcite and robin’s egg blue turquoise. Courtesy Jay Walker, curator of the Library of the History of Human Imagination. Photo by Orasa Weldon/GIA.
The Pegmatites

The Pegmatites
Mining for Tourmaline in Brazil

Mining for Tourmaline in Brazil
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