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Honey Dravite Slice - Jajarkot, Nepal - Rich Colors, and Great Shape - 11.5 ct.
Honey Dravite Slice - Jajarkot, Nepal - Rich Colors, and Great Shape - 11.5 ct.
Honey Dravite Slice - Jajarkot, Nepal - Rich Colors, and Great Shape - 11.5 ct.
Honey Dravite Slice - Jajarkot, Nepal - Rich Colors, and Great Shape - 11.5 ct.
Honey Dravite Slice - Jajarkot, Nepal - Rich Colors, and Great Shape - 11.5 ct.
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Honey Dravite Slice - Jajarkot, Nepal - Rich Colors, and Great Shape - 11.5 ct.

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Gem: Dravite Tourmaline Slice

Weight: 11.5 ct.

Dimensions: 16.4 x 16.4 x 4 mm thick

Clarity:  SI - quite clean for a tourmaline slice

Origin:  Thickachaur Mine - Jaljalla Mountain, Jajarkot District, Western Nepal

Treatments: None - Natural tourmaline gem

Comments:

I personally made a trip to the source of this material in 2011.  I got all the way to the village at the foot of Jaljalla mountain, 14 miles from the nearest road, high up in the foothills of the Himalayas.

I was able to acquire a limited number of these very light, open color tourmalines.  Both before, and since that moment I have never seen any others like this available.  They must have been a very anomalous pocket.  99.999% of the rest of the material coming from this mine, and the several other mines in the same area are dark, root beer colored dravites.

This slice is a super neat open honey color in 2-tones.  It's its own kind of watermelon tourmaline slice, with a slightly yellower honey color rind, and a slightly blue-green-ier color in the center.  

The gem's inclusions seem to be small, partially re-healed halo inclusions caused by microscopic inclusions of biotite mica, and possibly other things.  It all just looks like faint, wispy spider-webby rainbows.  It's a neat effect because it isn't incredibly plentiful.