Stunning bi-colored Tourmaline (Smale Coll.)

Item Description

A STUNNING and GORGEOUS, bi-colored, watermelon-pink and green, tourmaline from the famed Cruzeiro Mine and the Steve Smale Collection. The vivid pink of the main termination, lower sidecar crystal terminations and the superb, pure gem, sideways crystal are mindblowing adjacent to the gemmy and lustrous, green, main body. The main termination is very complex and is partially etched on one side. A REALLY nifty feature of this amazing crystal are the bent, healed fractures of the green body of the crystal. The healed areas are filled with PINK tourmaline! Some very interesting crystal chemistry and tectonic forces in the pocket during crystal formation! Tourmalines of this old-time quality were produced in the 1960s and 70s, while Steve lived and worked in Brazil. Complete all-around and pristine, except for the base of the sideways crystal. TRY to find another like it. Steve"s price on his label was $2200 (in an exchange to me 3-4 years ago).