An Aesthetic Bicolor Tourmaline

An Aesthetic Bicolor Tourmaline

Kunar, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan

Overall size 18.0 x 5.0 x 4.5 cm. Few gem materials can compare to the color spectrum of tourmaline, let alone possess more than one of those colors in a single crystal. The present specimen is a large and aesthetic bicolor example of the elbaite variety consisting of numerous individually terminated parallel crystals displaying strong color zoning from deep pink purple to light green and back to pale pink at the terminations. With custom lucite base.