About Those Big And Rare Tourmalines…………..Tourmaline is a birthstone for October along with opal and it is also the gem of the eighth anniversary. The name comes from the Sinhalese word toramalli, which means “stone with mixed colors,” because it often has multiple colors in one crystal. Very few gems match tourmaline’s dazzling array of colors. Perhaps this is why ancient mystics believed this October birthstone could inspire artistic expression – it has a color palette for every mood. Among the most popular are the pink and red rubellites, the emerald green “chrome” tourmalines, and the neon green and blue-to-violet “paraíba” tourmalines. Occasionally, the colors in tourmalines are mixed, resulting in bi-color or multicolored gemstones. There’s enough choice in Tourmaline to capture everyone’s fancy. Watermelon, bicolor, and multicolored zoning occurs when the trace elements change in concentration or composition during a crystal’s growth. Gemologists describe these tourmalines as parti-colored. Dealers usually tolerate red tourmalines with some eye-visible inclusions as long as the color is strong and attractive. It’s not unusual for pink and red tourmalines to have eye-visible inclusions. Unless their size or the number of the inclusions is distracting, knowledgeable consumers consider the color to be the dominant value factor. Fashioned tourmalines in larger sizes rise considerably in per-carat price. Even though specimens can reach spectacular sizes, these are rare. Availability drops and prices rise sharply for facet-quality rough material. For fashioned gems of similar color and clarity, the price per carat generally increases as the gems pass the five-carat milestone.……….GIA CS Textbooks Vol.2

Item Description:

Details:

Shape………………………...……Round Oval

Transparency………………….….Transparent

Color…………………………...…..Pink 

Weight………………………...…...12.88 carats

Species…………………………....Natural Tourmaline

Variety……………………….…….Natural Rubellite Tourmaline

Treatment………………………....No Treatment

Geographic Origin……..…….... Mozambique

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