Tourmaline (bicolor) (7.97 grams) (ex Rolando Gioia Collection)

Item Description

Here we have a beautiful crystal of bicolor Tourmaline with lustrous, striated prism faces and excellent saturation on the termination. You can see the RICH cranberry colored pyramdial termination gives way to an odd an alluring silvery-bluish-lialc hue throughout the rest of the piece. The piece is in decent shape, but it does have some nicks, so it's not completely pristine. It would make a nice addition to a Tourmaline suite, a gem crystal collection, or a Brazilian collection. Classic material and very attractive from the standpiont of color. Weight is 7.97 grams. From the collection of Rolando Gioia (a contributor to new definitive book on Brazilian minerals: "Minerais e Pedras Preciosas do Brasil").