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...
Why do we give things names? I think that its gives people a economical and convenient way to discuss something as long as both parties have the same thing in mind. I remember an endless argument with a reasonably intelligent roommate in college that was going nowhere...
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...
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