Description
TOURMALINE SLICE
This is the polished on the both sides yellow-pink tourmaline slice with quartz, feldspar and lepidolite. Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.4 x 0.3″ (14.2 x 11.2 x 0.8cm). Weight – 7.9oz (224 grams). Origin: Russia, Transbaikalia.
Some information about tourmaline:
In 1703, Dutch sailors first brought into Europe elongated crystals of purple-pink color. Following the inhabitants of Ceylon, they called these rocks «turemali» that are meaning is mineral, jewel. Thus arose the modern term tourmaline, which is called a variety of silicate, which includes compounds of aluminum, boron, manganese and magnesium.
Tourmaline stone features a large variety of colors. Ruby-red stones called rubellite, purple-red stones found in the Urals – siberite. Verdelite is green tourmaline, indigolite – blue. Yellowish-brown stones on the deposit Drava in Austria called dravite. Rare colorless crystals called ahroite. A very common black variety of tourmaline calls schorl.
