Olenite-Elbaite Tourmaline from the Palelni Mine, Burma - Palelni mine (Kat Chay mine), Myanmar
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ETHW-8listed on 05/08/2025
Olenite-Elbaite Tourmaline from the Palelni Mine, Burma

Olenite-Elbaite Tourmaline

Palelni mine, Khetchel village, Molo quarter,

Momeik Township, Kyaukme District,

Shan State, Burma


Ex Tomer Shapira


Photo by Tomer Shapira


Here is a wonderful example of one of the kinds of "mushroom" habit tourmalines that the Palelni mine in Burma is famous for. These ones are more smooth and also exhibit some transparency (you can see straight through to their dark stems).

While sight-IDing tourmaline species is a bad idea (for example, no you cannot tell the difference between an Elbaite and a "Liddicoatite" by sight), at some localities where enough testing has been done and some sort of visual ID has been roughly identified, you can get away with certain guesses. At the Palelni mine, these smoother mushrooms have been ID'd as Olenite or somewhere between Elbaite and Olenite tourmaline.

Since this piece has not been formally tested, it's being labeled as Olenite-Elbaite.

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