I have been working my way threw the holidays (2013) on a mixture of inter net surfing with some writing and cutting some new pieces of decent rough that I was finally able to get at a significantly higher price then in the recent past. As I worked hard to keep the...
I have been thinking about this quite a bit lately because of opportunities to sell some stone and the need to price them. The pricing of top quality gemstones is always a problem because subtle differences between stones can lead to quite a bit of difference in...
Tourmaline is not the most dichroic gemstone of all gemstones or in fact intrinsically dichroic at all. I prefer to use dichroic rather than pleochroic because tourmaline can only express two colors in a crystal that are based on different axis of the crystal. I...
I have had an interest in rocks and minerals for as long as I can remember, but I really did not get into tourmaline until I started faceting at the age of fifteen. My parents had gotten me a big chemistry set for Christmas and my mother had concerns. I was having too...
Collectors and lovers of tourmaline should be tolerant of inclusion in tourmaline to appreciate the full glory of tourmaline color. This opinion has grown up over the years of cutting tourmaline, in part out of necessity and in part out of a growing appreciation of...
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