Tourmaline is a rare gem mineral found most notably in Brazil, Africa, California and Maine.
Occurring in an unusually wide range of colors and intensities, it can be pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, colorless, black and even multi-colored. Green and pink crystals can be cut into slices called "watermelon tourmaline". Flawless cut stones can be worth thousands per carat!
Tourmaline is harder than Quartz and has many unusual physical properties that make it useful in electronics.
A sampling of our Tourmaline gemstones can be found in this category. See the category "Assorted Gemstones" for our complete inventory.
Extremely rare, bright yellow Fluorcalciomicrolite crystals with Rubellite on Lepidolite. Specimen was identified by University of Arizona, via Raman Spectroscopy. Acquired in Goias, Brazil by Jack in the 70s.
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Item: 9663 Locality: Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
L: 1.80in
W: 0.70in
H: 0.65in
Weight: 25.00g
Doubly terminated red Elbaite Tourmaline, floater, from the famous Virgem da Lapa pegmatites in Brazil. Mined in 1975. Click on photo to see other views.
Very unusual dark blue tourmalines with hexagonal cross-section, tabular perpendicular to the c-axis, and doubly terminated with two pyramids. Very rare habit of tourmaline from freak locality.
Excellent example of the newly famous turquoise blue tourmaline, this is a natural specimen in white feldspar. Very limited amount of specimens will ever be produced. some crystals here show watermelon color. No terminations.
Item: 7817 Locality: Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
L: 2.25in
W: 1.25in
H: 0.50in
Weight: 0.00ct
Group of three green tourmalines, in a chain. One tourmaline is only 1mm thick, showing striations on each side, perhaps the flattest Elbaite crystal imaginable. Main crystal has two zones of green color.
Brilliant doubly terminated parallel growth Quartz crystals enclosing green tourmalines and snow white cleavlandite crystals that grew simultaneous with the Quartz. Real eye candy. Click on photo to see closeup.
Doubly-terminated, floater Quartz crystal imbedded with Tourmaline, resulting in aesthetic, altered growth. Crystallized on all sides, no contact.
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Green bicolor tourmaline alongside of smaller pink bicolor tourmaline,lined with Cleavelandite crystals, on terminated Quartz crystal, smaller tourmalines and quartz. New mine, Excellent matrix tourmaline specimen.
Chatoyant light green Elbaite Tourmaline, tabular and terminated, perched on mass of brecciated Quartz that have been healed and now have distorted crystal shapes while being brilliant and packed together by the process of recrystallization in the pocket. This is an example of an altered Pegmatite pocket, shattered when the pressure and temperature was interupted by a pocket suddenly open
Remarkable specimen of a green Tourmaline crystal (terminated) on brecciated (broken) Quartz that has been rehealed and then cemented in nature by solutions in the pocket.
Pastel, blue-green Elbaite Tourmaline crystals in a doubly terminated Quartz crystal. Old stock, we can not reproduce this price.
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Pink Tourmaline (tricolor) perched on the fron of a doubly terminated Quartz crystal, new mine, we have the first production. Excellent matrix specimen. More views available on request
Bright green Tourmaline crystals, mostly terminated on at least one end, included and covering two parallel Quartz crystals. Several display sides, aesthetic.
Item: 8682 Locality: Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
L: 2.75in
W: 1.75in
H: 1.50in
Weight: 0.00ct
Green Tourmaline with divided termination on transparent Smoky or slightly citrine Quartz. From one of the premier pegmatite fields on earth, Virgem da Lapa.
Museum size specimen of greenish blue Elbaites in Lepiidolite on brilliant Quartz crystal. Main elbaite is terminated. Several display options, vertical the most impressive.
Item: b315 Locality: Toca da Onca Pegmatite, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
L: 1.50in
W: 1.00in
H: 1.00in
Weight: 0.00g
Classic pegmatite specimen, consisting of two bi-color Elbaite Tourmaline crystals (1 terminated & 1 not) with terminated Topaz and Feldspar crystals, surrounded in Lepidolite.
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Very fine group of brilliant complexly crystallized black tourmaline crystals. Our best Schorl specimen. has two sharp Albite crystals and some small quartz crystals. See more Namibian Schorl specimens in the Namibia section.
Schorls and Smoky Quartz together in geometric array, one of the finest we've ever seen. Geometric specimen with infinite display angles. Sold to Dave Daniels by Jack Lowell in 2007.
As good as it gets for Uvite, which is a Tourmaline. A brilliant Uvite crystal perched on top of a pyramid of three larger, transparent Magnesite crystals. Competition caliber.