Elbaite, Quartz

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This is a superb, 7-cm-long glowing green spear of tourmaline, impaling a thick milky quartz crystal. The tourmaline diverges into multiple cityscape terminations after emerging through the quartz, and the effect is quite a geometric contrast to the simple prism on the quartz termination. The multiple terminations of the tourmaline, exposed and subject to easy break, are in fact pristine and undamaged, and complete all around. Weighs 233 grams.