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4.7 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm. A tourmaline of superb quality and beauty, from the Cruzeiro Mine. It is extremely gemmy, grading from a cranberry color to an intense scarlet at the top. The termination is absolutely perfect, and glassy, as it the entire crystal. No contacts or damage. This fine gem crystal weighs 21 grams. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
3.2 x 1.5 x 1.1 cm. A beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, dark teal blue, indicolite tourmaline crystal with a frosted, matte termination. This is CLASSIC, OLD material from the 1960s or early 70s, from the famous Jonas Mine of Brazil. This piece predates the incredible find of cranberry tourmalines in the late 1970s. This complete all-around crystal is essentially pristine, with only very trivial edge-wear on the termination edge and on one side. They are certainly not a detraction to this fine old-timer. The UNRETOUCHED backlit photo highlights the intense color saturation and gemminess. Ex. George Elling Collection. 15 grams.
10.2 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm. A MAGNIFICENT, gemmy and lustrous, multi-crystal CABINET tourmaline cluster from the famous Cruzeiro Mine. The beautiful, emerald-green color is striking with the lustrous, black terminations. Complete all-around and essentially pristine, with only very trivial contacting on the angle crystal, which has a broken base. CLASSIC, OLDER Cruzeiro material from the 60s or 70s. 34 grams.
4.3 x 1.5 x 0.8 cm. A gemmy and lustrous, flattened, richly striated, emerald-green tourmaline crystal with a black, etched termination from an UNCOMMON Brazilian locality - the Pirineus Mine, Taquaral. This beauty is complete all-around is essentially pristine, with only very trivial edge wear on one side. The back is sharply contacted, but has no damage, per se. 8 grams.
5.4 x 5.1 x 4.4 cm. An OLD-TIME, CLASSIC and very showy Himalaya Mine specimen. A 3.2 cm, pristine, gemmy and lustrous, green, pink and green tourmaline is very aesthetically attached to the side of a smoky quartz cleavage. The gemmy, green termination really sets the tourmaline off. The old label has a 1923 date on it! This historic piece could easily date to the late 1800s-early 1900s, when the mine was very active for the China trade.
3.7 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm. A GORGEOUS, 3-dimensional spray of gemmy and lustrous, green tourmaline crystals beautifully accented by a bit of tabular, white albite from an UNCOMMON Brazilian locality in Goias State - Campos Verdes. 360 degree tourmaline clusters, such as this and in this quality, are uncommon. A SUPERB piece.
7.5 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm. A GEM, cutter-grade, emerald-green tourmaline with no internal flaws. This pristine beauty is nicely striated and has a complex pyramidal termination with striated faces. 11 grams.
5.2 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm. A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME bi-axial cluster of lustrous, partially gemmy, green tourmaline crystals from the famous Golconda Mine. The upright crystal has a very showy, spray-like termination and is pristine, all-around. The contact on the horizontal crystals reveals the cranberry core, making these watermelon tourmalines. An aesthetic and beautiful Golconda tourmaline.
5.4 x 3.0 x 2.8 cm. A JUICY, large pink tourmaline with a thin, green zone just below the termination. This CLASSIC Himalaya Mine crystal is complete all-around and is very nearly pristine, with only super-trivial termination edge wear. The modified pinacoid termination is very glassy and is slightly etched. Very hefty at 92 grams.
3.9 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm. A KILLER, MAROON tourmaline crystal from Nigeria. This flawless gem has a unique color for tourmaline, slightly different than famous Jonas Mine cranberry tourmalines. The sides are nicely striated and the pinacoid termination is highly lustrous. 8 grams. Ex. Ed David Collection.
3.6 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm. From the new find in the late Fall of 2005 in Pakistan. This is a very nice 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 of that many of them lacked was decent color. This crystal features several colors ranging from a light pink shade one end ranging into a thin colorless ("Achroite") zone, then a beautiful pale yellow-green color, then into an olive-green color, then a very dark forest-green color. To top it off, the crystal is associated with a beautiful "flower" of Cleavelandite flaring off the side. The prism of the Tourmaline is rather lustrous for this material, but the termination is just as lustrous, which is NOT common for these crystals. 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.
3.2 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm. A beautifully gemmy and unusually shaped green tourmaline crystal from a BRAND NEW LOCALITY and FIND in Brazil - the Teixerinha Mine in Minas Gerais. The highly lustrous and striated crystal is flattened, curved and bulgy. The steeply pyramidal terminations are frosted. Hidden on the curved back at the base is a purple lepidolite crystal cluster!
4.3 x 2.0 x 1.3 cm. A KILLER, GEM polychrome Himalaya Mine tourmaline. Larger Himalaya tourmalines, such as this, SELDOM have this gemminess in the pink and green colors. This doubly terminated beauty shows textbook hemimorphism, meaning the terminations have different forms: one is pyramidal and one is pinacoidal. CLASSIC, SUPER and OLDER material from the George Elling Collection. Pristine, except for a super trivial bruise on the edge of the pinacoid termination. 27 grams.
4.1 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm. From the collection of Steve Smale, a superb GEM crystal of tourmaline from the Cruzeiro Mine. The gemminess runs from top to bottom. It is a grassy green at the bottom, with yellow-orange and pink-red tones towards the pristine termination. Glassy faces, high luster, no contacts. Weighs 9 grams.
12.8 x 7.1 x 6.8 cm. A very large crystal of tourmaline, which, though it appears almost black, is actually a slightly translucent teal blue color under strong light. What is most distinctive about it, other than its size, is its fibrous crystal structure - as if composed of thousands of elongated, tightly stacked needles. The termination therefore has a rough appearance as these needle-like sub-crystals each terminate individually. Weighs in at 828 grams!
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