OK, I admit it! I am a sucker for tourmalines, I really am.
When I saw this baby blue/baby pink bicolor tourmaline, I fell in love. The internal iridescence is just icing on the cake!
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Very nice, indeed! I can see why you fell in love with it.
ReplyDeleteIridescent tourmalines are so pretty, aren't they? I still haven't managed to get a nice one for myself, though.
I just realised you are Alaiselena from mercado livre. You used to have some very nice stones (a miracle considering all the garbage there). I remember a lovely hemimorphite druzy in particular.
ReplyDeleteHi Beatriz, Thank you for the compliments.
ReplyDeleteYes, I once had very good stones there for very good prices; however, the consumers here were not able to recognize this, and sales became difficult when so many competitors selling worthless stones came on to the scene.
I still have some of that druzy if you are interested. It is such an incredible natural color. I was worried that it was a dyed color, so I left those stones outside on a windowsill in the hot sun for 6 months -- no color fading at all!
Oops! I think all of that druzy is now in Illinois. I visited my daughter in August and left most of my good stones there.
I will be putting up some Mali grossular garnets on the Search 4 Gems site, as soon as my daughter can get them back to the U.S. in mid January.
If you are in Brazil, perhaps I can put some stones on a flickr or picasa album for interested buyers here.
Best regards,
Tenney
I am interested in the price of the blue-pink tourmaline. Is it for sale?If it has been sold, what did it sell for?
ReplyDeleteDear Anon,
ReplyDeleteI am probably not going to sell the stone just now.
This is due to the fact that it is strongly resembles the colors of Paraiba tourmalines -- that is, if you are familiar with a lot of the colors that show up in the matrix -- pink and blue. I am not talking about the good quality crystals that are cut and heated.
When I saw these bicolored stones in Teofilo Otoni, it hit me right away that they could be from Paraiba. So, I got the biggest one -- it was not expensive, but of course we are talking about the price in Teofilo Otoni.
I will probably send it to a friend who has a spectrometer to see what he can see.
But thank you for your interest! I am having to set aside my gem studies for the moment due to taking a huge load of classes at university, but I will be free this summer to pursue gem interests, and I am very glad you reminded me about this tourmaline. I will try to have it analyzed. This should be interesting!
Best regards,
Tenney