I have pretty strong feelings about setting tourmaline in jewelery. I read on the internet over and over again that tourmaline has a hardness between 7 and 7.5 on the mohe’s scale. That just means that it is relatively harder than quart/sand, which is enough when it...
When Paraiba from Brazil first hit the market in the late 1980s and was accepted as a natural beauty, many attempts were made to stretch English to express the wonderment of its beauty. Its hue/color was compared to Windex blue, electric blue etc. and its visual...
by My Lady Pink This report is an attempt to bring the excitement and drama of a youtube video that went viral just a couple of days ago to a wider less connected audience. It focuses on the cutter’s behavior and its impact on an innocent Indicolite, who is the...
With the advent of modern methods of non destructive/semi non destructive such as LA_ICP MS (Laser Ablation, Induction Coupled Plasma, Mass Spectrometer) the trace element chemistry of tourmaline has become much more accessible. Elements such as lead and the rare...
In this post I will limit myself to a simple truth that has not been picked up by the internet and how it continues to propagate an older theory of color change that CAN NOT BE TRUE. I will not write about the proposed theory of why color change occurs in gemstones,...
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