Tourmaline (multicolor)

Item Description

From the find in late fall of 2007. This is a nice polychrome single Tourmaline crystal from the most famous Tourmaline locality in Pakistan. I have seen many Tourmaline specimens from Stak Nala for many years and the one characteristic of that many of them lacked was decent color. This crystal features several colors ranging from a very light pink shade at the tip of the pyramidal termination, ranging into a thin colorless ("Achroite") zone, then a beautiful yellow-green color which gives way to an olive-green color and ends with an essentially black shade throughout the rest of the prism. The piece is rather gemmy and has good luster along the prism faces.