Gemmy bi-colored Tourmaline & Smoky Quartz (Bill Larson Coll.)

Item Description

A 3.7 cm, beautiful, gemmy, sharply terminated, bi-colored tourmaline is artistically flanked by feldspar-coated glassy smoky quartz on this aesthetic miniature from the well-known Malkhan pegmatites. The glassy and lustrous tourmaline with a pyramidal termination is mainly a gorgeous vivid bubblegum-pink. The front of the crystal is dramatically accented with a number of terminated parallel-growth crystals with darker pink areas with hints of gray-green in both the sidecars and the primary crystal. The gemmy smoky on the right side is terminated and the tourmaline is complete all-around. See the fine 2019 Mineralogical Record article in Vol. 50, No. 3. Ex Bill Larson Collection - old material obtained from a museum trade. This is a very well-balanced and excellent matrix combination in this size range from here.