Pink Tourmaline, Lepidolite & Microcline (Schlichter Coll.)

Item Description

A 1.7 cm, gorgeous, gemmy and lustrous, renowned "hot" pink tourmaline is aesthetically placed on the purple lepidolite matrix on this showy and excellent combination specimen from the famous Stewart Mine of California. This was the older and far more famous (at the time) cousin of the Himalaya Mine, but alas its production was not as great or as recent and it is fading into memory a bit. The termination is broken and healed on this crystal. The striated rubellite crystal is a beautiful, intensely color-saturated pink. More rubellite crystals and pods of tan, bladed cleavelandite are a fine compliment against the purple lepidolite. Old matrix material from the 1960s, and seldom available. Ex Schlichter Collection.