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3.3 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm. A translucent-to-transparent, bright pink crystal of tourmaline from the Malkhan gem tourmaline deposit in Russia, which as been producing a trickle of tourmalines, never in quantity This crystal is complete all around and lustrous, with a fine termination, though with a bit of wear around the termination edge. Weighs 24 grams.
8.1 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm. Let me say up-front that this gorgeous tourmaline crystal has a clean, well-disguised repair on it (as so many Pederneira crystals do). Still, it has beautiful bottle-green color and a dramatic slanting termination - and no other contacts or damage.
5.1 x 2.2 x 1.4 cm. From a different pocket, with a totally different style. You could nearly call this a blue-cap, with its teal-colored termination. It has an intense hot pink central area; it is complete and terminated.
5.4 x 3.0 x 3.0 cm. A big, thick crystal of tourmaline from Coronel Murta, weighing 108 grams. It has a very gemmy body that lights up a pretty bright green under good light, and towards the top, turns an intense pink. The beveled, pyramidal termination has some natural etch pits or growth anomalies, but is complete and undamaged. These came out around 2000-2001 and were one single unique pocket, never matched since for the combination of color pattern and intensity.
6.6 x 5.1 x 4.3 cm. This is from an absolutely wonderful pocket of deep pink/green bi-colors found in the late 1980s, and very classic for the style in form and overall aesthetics. The tourmaline is 6.3 x 2.3 x 2 cm in size and has intense color to each end. Often, only one or the other end is deeply colored, and one pale. Here, the pink is almost red in hue, and the green is very saturated. I love the different tourmaline terminations you see on these - so dramatic, split apart by the veil of white in the middle. This is a floater, complete all around, with sheaves of cleavelandite matrix and a 4cm doubly-terminated quartz attached. The tourmaline itself is unusually translucent, as most are darker, and shows its colors with only minimal backlighting.
8.2 x 1.8 x 2.0 cm. This elegant example of a bent tourmaline shows, better than most, how movement during crystal growth can lead to gradual breaking-healing that twists as it grows, resulting in tourmalines that actually look like they were bent after forming. Ex. Budil Collection.
8.4 x 5.9 x 4.8 cm. This is a superb, 7-cm-long glowing green spear of tourmaline, impaling a thick milky quartz crystal. The tourmaline diverges into multiple cityscape terminations after emerging through the quartz, and the effect is quite a geometric contrast to the simple prism on the quartz termination. The multiple terminations of the tourmaline, exposed and subject to easy break, are in fact pristine and undamaged, and complete all around. Weighs 233 grams.
A very gemmy, bright cluster of 2 parallel-grown crystals. They are complete on the sides and front, though broken off in back. 2 x 2 x 1 cm
A gemmy, bright cluster of 2 parallel-grown crystals with lepidolite and albite. 4 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
A SHARP crystal with classic Newry color! It shows some minor etching, but is nevertheless sharply terminated atop and crudely terminated on the bottom as well, making it a floater. 3.25 x 2 x 1.75 cm
A SHARP crystal with classic Maine color! It is really a very showy miniature. This one is complete all around. 4 x 2 x 1.5 cm
4.2 x 0.4 x 0.3 cm (largest). An excellent 2-piece set of gem, green pencil tourmalines from the Gillette Quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. The crystals have excellent emerald-green color saturation. Classic Haddam Neck green tourmaline material. 10.24 carats or just over 2 grams. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection and collected by Gene Vitali in the 1950-60s.
3.4 x 0.5 x 0.4 cm, 3.0 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm. Two fine gem tourmaline crystals from Paprok, with the classic coloration for most pockets there: a bright, grassy-green body, and delicate pastel-pink termination. The taller one has some mineral attachment on the back.
2.7 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm. A super-gem crystal of elbaite from Barra de Salinas, a limpid green from top to bottom, with a strange hot pink "thread" running down one side. Nice clean termination, some minor edge-wear. Weighs 14 grams. Ex. Steve Smale Collection, from late 1980s.
2.6 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm. Despite their fine quality, Nepalese tourmalines are not well-known to collectors, simply because so few of them come onto the market. Here is a superbly gemmy crystal, complete, uncontacted and beautifully terminated with glassy termination faces. It is mostly pink, with just a bit of green towards the top. Weighs 10 grams. From the 1980s. Ex. Jaime Bird Collection.
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