Tourmaline on Quartz (Morgenstein Coll.)

Item Description

The Stewart Mine is renowned for gorgeous, hot-pink tourmaline, but has also produced very fine bi-colored tourmalines, such as this fine combination example. Three, very glassy, well-striated crystals to 2.7 cm (2 of them) have classic hot-pink bodies with pretty, contrasting, lightly frosted, seafoam-green terminations. The tourmalines are embedded on the side of a large, lustrous, euhedral, slightly smoky quartz crystal. The second large toumaline has a lightly contacted termination and other broken tourmalines are noted, which are a modest detraction. Old combination material from the 1960s, and very seldom available in this fine quality. Ex Maury Morgenstein Collection (an old-time San Diego miner and gem dealer).