Tourmaline

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A MAJOR crystal at 777 grams, complete all around, like a rocket, and so colorful and beautiful! So far as I know, its the best, biggest, unrepaired Cryo-Genie piece with good color. All the little crystals around the sides are complete, hanging down. It is really quite elegant in person, and when backlit glows with a wonderful color contrast. The CG Mine seems to have come and gone in its brief few years, and these will be remembered as a really unique style for San Diego County. It looks Afghani to the normal eye, I will admit, but this came from the mine owners (Ken and Dana Gochenour) to Bill directly upon finding it! And if Afghani, it would be twice the price anyhow, and yet of less significance. For an American tourmaline, again unrepaired in any manner, it makes a definite visual splash