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Mineral Specimens with Elbaite
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4.7 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm. A gorgeous, gemmy crystal of tourmaline from the Cruzeiro, with scintillating accents of deep hot magenta around the exterior and at the termination (which is complete and undamaged). It is a light teal color in the interior. Fine luster too. Beautiful! Weighs 22 grams.
4.1 x 3.5 x 3 cm. Here is a big, fat, chunky crystal of deep blue indicolite tourmaline, with minor accenting albite, lepidolite and quartz. Under strong light you can see the deep teal-blue color. It has a perfect, flat and glassy termination on top. The crystal is complete all around. It weighs an impressive 120 grams.
8.7 x 7.5 x 5.6 cm. This massive rock of solid lepidolite is classic Pala material: it features radial bursts of translucent pink crystals of tourmaline, embedded in the matrix. There are dozens of crystals here, measuring to two centimeters. This rich specimen came out of an old collection - it is hard to obtain this today, and although massive and embedded, they make for very pretty pieces nonetheless.
3.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm. A GLASSY, GEM CLEAR crystal of tourmaline, of a stunning light cranberry pink color, with a green tip. The termination, though naturally jagged and rough, is complete - and, in fact, so is the whole crystal, with no contacts. Weighs 6 grams.
26.5 cm x 3.8 x 3.7 cm. This crystal is the size of my arm from elbow to wrist! It originally came from the collection of noted gem crystal collector Gene Meieran, who along with partners (dealer Wayne Thompson) financed mining at this small locality for a few years and recovered a small number of these large, electric-green crystals. The color is a VIBRANT electric green! At the base, there are red and blue zones; but the majority is this intense green color which runs through 11 cm of the crystal to the opaque termination. I would not say the entire zone is facetable, but there nevertheless IS a sizeable quantity of first-class electric-vibrant-green tourmaline facet rough in there. There are two repairs at approx. the 1/3 and 2/3 marks along the crystal. As you can see from the pictures (taken in fairly normal frontal light, with the addition of a moderate backlight), the cracks at the junctions are not really noticeable from a distance as anything more than internal veils look; although they are visible up close. Given the size, even with two repairs, this is a stunning piece. It is otherwise undamaged, and complete all around!
4.0 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm. Here we have a superb miniature size multicolor crystal with attractive steep pyramidal terminations, glassy luster and excellent gemminess. Afghanistan has truly produced some of the most attractive Tourmaline specimens around for the last 25 years or so, and they have really held their own against Touramlines from other world localities. This crystal has a beautiful pink termination that ranges into a colorless "Achroite" zone, and switches over to a rich blue-green zone for about 3/4 of the crystal. Please note that blue-green section of the crystal is slightly more yellow than the photos indicate. The crystal is complete all the way around, and very attractive. It is becoming more and more difficult to obtain superb quality Tourmalines from Paprok for decent prices, as the locals seem to be charging more and more for them after each new find.
2.1 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm. From the new find in the late Fall of 2005 in Pakistan. This is a nice little specimen from the most famous Tourmaline locality in Pakistan. I have seen many Tourmaline specimens from Stak Nala for many years and the one characteristic that many of them lacked was decent color. This crystal features several colors ranging from a light blue shade one end ranging into a slight colorless "Achroite" zone, grading into a blue-green area, then into an olive-green color, then a very dark forest-green color. The prism faces of the Tourmaline are rather lustrous for this material. This is a great display piece and a wonderful pegmatite specimen from a classic locality. These pieces are becomingly increasingly difficult to find in today’s market.
4.2 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm. A pristine gem crystal of tourmaline out of the collection of Steve and Clara Smale. This 5-gram crystal grades from pink to a gemmy green at the fine termination, with multiple peaks. It has glassy luster, and no damage, and is complete all around. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
5.6 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm. This is a WONDERFUL large, fat old-timer tourmaline crystal from the Himalaya that came out of an old East Coast collection (Anthony and Dorothy Thurston). It has an unusual TRIANGULAR termination that was seen in a few of these old ones. It has only a tiny bit of edge-wear in one place that you have to look very hard to find - this crystal is in remarkably great condition. Interestingly, if you look down into the termination, you will see a hollow "tube" running internally for most of the crystal length - all the way down to the green! Note the unusually intense pink color, too. Weighs 63 grams.
14.5 x 6.9 x 5.3 cm. A burst of opaque rubellite crystals, still embedded in the frosty lepidolite matrix. There must be two dozen crystals here! It is interesting to see them in situ, exactly as they looked after they cooled and crystallized within the molten host rock. Old classic Stewart material, now hard to get.
1.9 x 0.3 x .0.3 cm, 1.6 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm, 1.3 x .0.3 x 0.3 cm, 1.6 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm. A set of four complete, terminated thumbers of gem tourmaline from Paprok. They are completely damage-free, gemmy from top to bottom, and show a range of pretty colors.
4.2 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm. Tourmaline is RARE from Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil, but to find a gemmy and lustrous, 2.1 cm, watermelon tourmaline jauntily set in childrenite-dusted quartz crystals is EXCEPTIONAL! The blue-green indicolite tourmaline with the pink core is beautiful, in itself. The combination with the childrenite on quartz is indeed, remarkable. The gemminess and glassiness of the tourmaline against the childrenite made photography difficult and washed out the pink interior of the tourmaline.
3.6 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm. An aesthetic and excellent pair of gemmy and lustrous tourmaline crystals from a MOST UNCOMMON San Diego County locale - the Cota Mine. These elbaite variety verdelite toumalines are very glassy, smoky to green in color and have matte-black caps. Cota Mine tourmalines are RARELY available. This is very fine material. Ex. Ed Ruggiero Collection, who bought this piece from Pala Properties in June, 1976. OLD material.
2.4 x 1.2 x 0.7 cm. A really cute Mt. Mica thumbnail of a gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored, pink and green tourmaline with a sharp, frosted, pyramidal termination.
4.7 x 1.7 x 1.6 cm. A super gemmy and lustrous, doubly terminated, dark red tourmaline from the famous Golconda Mine of Brazil. The UNRETOUCHED backlit photo highlights the gemminess and beautiful, intense red color saturation. This is definitely a very fine old-timer, which you seldom see today. The terminations are frosted and black. Two side bruises, below the pyramidal termination are on the backside and are out of sight. Excellent old-time material from the George Elling Collection. 26 grams.
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