Tourmaline (Tricolor)Tourmalines are one of the few gems that occur in natural bi color or tri color stones. This beautiful stone was cut from a crystal found nearly 40 years ago in Brazil. The stone shows a wonderful pink color on one end, with a rich green color on the other end and a beautiful colorless thin "Achroite" zone in the middle. This gem has a very slight amount of inclusions, which are difficult to see with the naked eye, but remember that Tourmaline is

GEM quality green and “cat’s eye” pink bicolor group with the renowned tapered scepter habit

A unique and eye-catching large thumbnail sized display specimen

this stone has a lovely blue color

and finding gem quality crystals on matrix is extremely difficult

) and certainly is unlike any other specimen in the lot

and is eventually replaced by the same native metal

revealing a brighter red color

and certainly one of the more interesting and eye-catching pieces that I’ve offered

and form make this a desirable and worthwhile small cabinet display of this beautiful material from this contemporary locality

showing the classic "rosette"-esque form of the original Azurite crystals which were later replaced by metallic Native Copper

gemmy "sword"-shaped crystal group of Kunzite from Afghanistan

and later became part of my collection