Gem: Watermelon Tourmaline
Weight: 3.38 ct.
Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.25 x 4.9 mm
Clarity: Eye Clean
Origin: Rubaya Mine, Democratic Republic of Congo
Treatments: None - Natural gem
Comments:
WOW! Hot, intensely orangey pink dominates this gem visually, but the sweet light leafy electric green at the termination shouldn't be underestimated. Both colors are extra hot and neon. Looking through the C- axis, you'll see the hot pink expresses itself in two directions.
The rough is a tad flattish, but there's a lot you can do with it to maximize its' footprint, OR you can sacrifice just a hair of length or width, and be able to hit a normal depth for the culet with not too much loss. User's choice. I would personally want to attempt an opposed bar pixel square - Those can be effective while pretty shallow, and can be modified to adjust for depth relatively easily.
If you are a crystal collector, or maybe if you want to make it into a piece of jewelry as-is, you CAN consider it a whole, terminated crystal - but there is a bit of a contact on the back of the termination, as well as a crystallized cast to one side, on the back where another crystal had been growing. It displays facing front quite well, and would also be possible to set it into jewelry in a way that hides the compromised areas completely.