Tourmaline

Pink, terminated crystal with a few fractured and healed areas
Origin: Himalaya mine, San Diego Co., California, USA
Sample size: 5 cm high
 
  
Variety rubellite
Origin: Ingersoll mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA
Sample size: left crystals 1.5 to 2 cm, right crystals to 1 cm
 
Origin: Iklaki, Tanzania
Sample size: 1.5 x 1 cm
 
        
Variety elbaite
Origin: Naipa mine, Alto Ligonia district, Mozambique
Sample size: 4 cm x 4 mm
 
        
Tourmaline with lilac lepidolite
Origin: Lavra da Pederneira, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 4.7 cm x 3 mm
 
  
Origin: Lavra da Pederneira, Sao Jose Safira, Mina Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 3.5 x 1.2 cm
 
  
Tourmaline with smoky quartz near the base
Origin: Chia mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Mina Gerai, Brazil
Sample size: 4 x 1.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
 
  
 
Origin: Stewart Mine, San Diego County, California
Sample size: 3.75 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm (top/2nd row), 5.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (3rd/4th row), 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Little 3 Mine, near Ramona, San Diego County, California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.6 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm
 
     
Tourmaline in cleavelandite with hambergite
Origin: Stak Nala, Gilgit, Pakistan
Sample size: 7.5 x 6 x 5.5 cm
 
     
  
Origin: Hyakule Mine, Sankhuyua Sabha, Nepal
Sample size: 6 x 2 x 2 cm
 
     
Tourmaline in cookeite
Origin: Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. M. Zinn collection
Sample size: 9 x 2.6 x 1.1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
This specimen is comprised of two fully terminated crystals of deep greenish blue tourmaline with deep indigo blue caps. There is an etched crystal of kunzite attached to the side of the specimen also. The bottom of the specimen was fractured and then rehealed in situ so it is technically a doubly terminated specimen!
Origin: Kunar Province, Nuristan, Afghanistan, Asia
Sample size: 8 x 6.5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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