Tourmaline (Tricolor)Tourmalines are one of the few gems that occur in natural bi color or tri color stones. This beautiful stone was cut from a crystal found nearly 40 years ago in Brazil. The stone shows a distinct pink color throughout the majority of the body of the gem, with a lively green color on the other end and a beautiful colorless thin "Achroite" zone in the middle. Tourmaline is classified as a "Type 3" gemstone, as inclusions are almost always present, and

The piece formed in a somewhat arborescent form as it has the shape of a shrub or a small tree in my mind

The piece is associated with a pair of gemmy

translucent to opaque radiating yellow to light yellow-cream colored “balls” of Wavellite are associated with GEM to gemmy

Item # QTZTROLLBRAZ1333

One of the rarely seen “tête noire” / “testa nera” (black head) Tourmalines from Vohitrakanga

so it's both a crystallized specimen and what I would call an almost organic

but it has a wide range of colors starting with a fiery orange-red hue on one end which grades across the specimen into nearly colorless / pale golden color and is actually opaque WHITE at the base

There are three aspects to this specimen that make it stand out from so many others on the market

Specimen # AMAZWH111906

showing a fantastic strong pinkish-purple color when viewed down the "c" axis

defined dodecahedral and octahedral crystals of Copper can be seen from all sides

and despite their smaller size