by The Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Jun 10, 2021 | Truth in tourmaline
Crushed by Bruce Fry The following effort to discuss a member of the wonderful family of related minerals called tourmaline comes from diverse, mostly informal sources. Outside of direct experience with red tourmaline from Mozambique, I do not have the resources to...
by The Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Jun 10, 2021 | Cutting/polishing
Crushed by Bruce Fry It all started a long time ago in what would become the magical land of Afghanistan. The continents drifted, drawn by mysterious currents deep in the earth, into collisions that built mighty mountains. As their glowing hearts of molten magma...
by The Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Jun 9, 2021 | Color in tourmaline
A Special Tourmaline. Color Change With A Twist. There are pieces of rough that will never be cut. They may have come in a lot or by themselves and it is sad to see them site on my kitchen windowsill rejected. The piece of rough that came to be the special tourmaline...
by The Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Jun 9, 2021 | Color in tourmaline
The choice of what to write on this page finds it roots in surfing the internet. There are many parts of the saga of tourmaline that I could not care less about, whether they are true or not. My indifference to tourmaline’s mystic and health issues keeps me from...
by The Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Jun 9, 2021 | Cutting/polishing
Stubby A Rough Sort of Tourmaline’s Quest for Success. Being long and thin is a natural for most tourmaline with my pedigree. And I am sure that is how I started out before the hand of man clipped my ends. I was kind of attached to my terminus, but if a good clipping...
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