Elbaite

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A beautiful, bi-colored, watermelon-pink and green tourmaline from the Cruzeiro Mine and the Steve Smale Collection. The vivid pink of the main termination, lower sidecar crystal terminations and the superb, pure gem, sideways crystal are outstanding adjacent to the gemmy and lustrous, green, main body. The main termination is very complex and is partially etched on one side. Really interesting features of this crystal are the bent, healed fractures of the green body of the crystal. The healed areas are filled with pink tourmaline. Some very interesting crystal chemistry and tectonic forces in the pocket during crystal formation. Tourmalines of this old-time quality were produced in the 1960s and 70s, while Steve lived and worked in Brazil.