Gem: Tourmaline
Weight: 1.915 grams
Dimensions: 36 x 6.4 x 5.35 mm
Clarity: N/A - though for those keeping track, there are several gem clean sections
Origin: Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Treatments: None
Comments:
Maybe one of the best tourmaline crystal's I have ever seen. It's just hitting on all areas;
It's got at least 5 or 6 + color gradients, of various lengths, shades, and saturations, PLUS the tip is a kind of etched blue cats eye.
The whole crystal is etched to a certain degree, but it's clear that the base was subjected to far more concentrated etching, as we are left with a 'sceptered' crystal! The 'stem' is VERY gemmy, and has very good, rich saturation in green and peachy pink shades. The rest of the crystal runs between light peachy and light green colors, all the way to the tip, where we have that intresting sort of fibrous, etched blue cats eye termination. The spires, and cavities at the termination are particularly aesthetic, and really add to the total beauty of this very special tourmaline crystal.