Tourmaline, Quartz & Lepidolite (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 very fine combination example. This 2.2 cm, very glassy, well-striated crystal has 5 color zones: a black schorl base; an achroite or coloress zone; a narrow apple-green zone; a pretty and wider, teal-blue zone; ending with the frosted, purple termination. The tourmaline is beautifully accented with an adjacent field of lustrous, lavender lepidolite crystals and is dramatically attached to a showy cluster of glassy, smoky quartz crystals. The tourmaline termination is emebbed in a 3.5 cm, doubly terminated smoky. Very trivial termination wear is noted to the tourmaline and the smokies are in great shape. Old material from the 1960s, and very seldom available in this exceptional combination quality. Ex Maury Morgenstein Collection (an old-time San Diego miner and gem dealer).