Elbaite, Quartz

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A gemmy and lustrous, 5.0 cm, polychrome tourmaline aesthetically wrapped in a partially euhedral smoky quartz cleavage from an UNCOMMON San Diego County locality - the San Diego Tourmaline Mine. The pink and green portions of this striking tourmaline are particularly gemmy and the etched termination is an indicolite-blue! very SELDOM on the market in this quality. Miner Eugene Rynerson collected this very showy piece circa 1970, according to the accompanying note. This mine also works the Himalaya pegmatite dike.