Tourmaline ("Watermelon Slice")Lots of people talk about "Watermelon" Tourmaline in terms of the simple combination of green and pink, but THIS is what a true "Watermelon" Tourmaline should look like. This is a beautiful, polished slice of the highly sought after material as you can clearly see the outer green "rind" surrounding the light pink interior. The best part of the piece is that the outer "rind" is completely intact and not broken or chipped up! A wonderful piece for any

sitting on Quartz crystals atop a thin layer of basalt matrix

smooth and lustrous

in clusters or as crusts

but these are not very common today in ANY size

and almost all of them are virtually damage free

given the fact that Baryte is chemically inert and nearly impossible to dissolve

it’s incredibly rare

this is a wonderful opportunity to get one for a good price

Item # TOURMBRAZ136

but it is slightly incomplete on the back where it was removed from the pocket wall

The base of the Topaz crystal has an interesting slightly etched opening along its natural cleavage but managed to hold together

but its remarkable gemminess