Strawberry is a description of some of the most intense pinks to be found in tourmaline that comes from Afghanistan. It is always included and I have been very fortunate to get a few pieces. It may not be surprising that this standard round brilliant, having the color strawberry, is included, but not excessive so. It is intense, but it is not a red. I like strawberries like this one and I wish that I could grow them in my garden. This nice example weighs 3.24 carats and is a nice size for a pendant.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
