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Tourmaline and Kunzite from Pala mines in San Diego county.

 

closer.....i wanna see sparkle..

 

I just want.

 

Beautiful, Holly. I love tourmaline.
I was the one who mentioned tourmaline, in reference to a ring I had resized.
Below is the ring, very dear to me. The tourmaline is a very dark green one, bought for me by my father while on a business trip to Brazil. I was seven or eight at the time, and already had the bling bug (genetic).
My parents had the stone set in a Modernist/Brutalist (style of the period) gold ring by a goldsmith friend.

 

In New England, we have lots of black tourmalines I'll see if I can get a photo of one of mine later.

 

We have lots of specimen grade garnet too. They're no good for jewelry, but people do collect them. I don't happen to have any.

 

The most abundant type of tourmaline, also called schorl. Some tourmaline that looks black is really very dark green, if you get enough light behind it.

 

Yes, most schorl is very dark green.

 

Love the stuff. Must get off my but and cut some of these this Xmas.

 

(since there's no drool emoji that I can find.) If it were me I might even leave a few of them as found and set them in a really modern setting. That rootbeer colored one in the lower left is a prime candidate. The dragon in me wants to drill all of them as is and make one HECKUVA gold and tourmaline necklace out of them.