The Definitive Guide to the World of Color in Tourmaline Gemstones

The Definitive Guide to the World of Color in Tourmaline Gemstones

Red Tourmaline Gemstones

Round – 1 to 5 Carats

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This standard round brilliant has an average amount of flash. It is lightly included, but with little effect on the stone. It brings a bit of added wealth to the droplets of color at 1.11 carats of rich color. #0002

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This pink is a sweet baby pink. A bit included, but that doesn't harm the beauty of the stone. It is bright and has a light tone level. It weighs 1.23 carats and came from Afghanistan.

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This standard round brilliant is slightly included. It is still a very bright, baby pink color that is very flashy. It is from Afghanistan and weighs 1.29 carats.

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This standard round brilliant appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It has a significant amount of brown, in its red, under some white lights. It weighs 2.79 carats and may be unique in the collection.

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This standard round brilliant has a darker than desired tone level. Its restrained flash shifts from pink to orange as it is placed in and out of the sun. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 2.53 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a strong brownish overtone in many, but not all normal lighting conditions. It has very good flash for a darker toned stone and weighs 3.62 carats.

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This round is pure pink and is as bright and flashy as any eye clean medium toned pink can be. Its pavilion is made deep with horizontally cut mains. It weighs 4.34 carats.

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There is really nothing wrong with this standard round brilliant. It has a great medium tone and a good middle of the road pink with a touch of peach. It weighs 1.50 carats and is accepted by the droplets of color.

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This standard round brilliant is a nice eye clean stone. It slides from peach to pink depending on the light. It has a fine medium tone and weighs 2.46 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a small area of the girdle that is visibly included. The stone has a great bright red and is very flashy. It has a flatter crown and weighs 2.42 carats. The spectrometer indicates it might be cuprian.

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This standard round brilliant has a fine medium tone level and a well saturated color. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 2.36 carats.

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Size does matter and this pink stone's medium plus tone reflects its larger size. It appears to eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 3.40 flashy carats that are very nice, but not hot.

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This standard round brilliant is an exceptional nice purple pink. It has a fine medium tone level and a bright spicy color. It appears eye clean and has fine crystal. it weighs 1.77 carats.

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This is a nice average, slightly included standard round brilliant that would look good in any piece of jewelry. Its slightly darker than average tone level will make it standout. It weighs 2.08 carats.

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This is one of the troopers in the collection. Slight included like most pinks, but still bright and flashy with an average darker medium tone level. This standard round brilliant weighs 1.37 carats.

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This standard round brilliant appears to be eye clean and have a darker tone level. It is a pleasant gemstone, that seems to want to be a red, but still is very pink. It weighs 1.20 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is a pretty common style of red with a medium dark tone level and slight inclusions. It is still flashy and weighs 2.27 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is a pretty common style of red with a medium dark tone level and slight inclusions. It is still flashy and weighs 2.27 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is a really hot pink that grabs the eye. It has good crystal and is eye clean except for a few growth tubes. It weighs 3.63 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has an average amount of flash. It is lightly included, but with little effect on the stone. It brings a bit of added wealth to the droplets of color at 1.11 carats of rich color.

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This standard round brilliant is eye clean and with fine crystal. Its pink color with a twist of purple is more sedate than a pure pink, but it is still a bright gem with a bit of a different twist with the purple. It weighs 2.16 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is eye clean and has a nice medium tone. It is a great helper with all the other less common colors to fill the ranks of the collection. It weighs 1.19 carats.

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This standard round brilliant needs a decent light to show its true colors of dark purplish red. It is not a particularly bright or flashy gemstone even though it is eye clean. It weighs 1.56 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is not a particularly flashy gemstone even with a flatter crown. It darker tone doesn't hide inclusions since it is eye clean. It weighs 1.16 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a moderate amount of inclusions for an average pink stone. It has a medium tone and a good saturation level that is superior to average commercial stones. It weighs 2.43 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is a hot pink that is only slightly included. It has good crystal and weighs 2.10 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a flatter crown. It is only slightly included and has a nice, bright, average pink hue. It weighs 3.20 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a flatter crown. It is only slightly included and has a nice, bright, average pink hue. It weighs 3.20 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has nothing wrong with it. The pink is hot and the tone level medium. It sailed threw all the tests and weighs 2,29 carats.

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This purplish pink's tone level is dark and the standard round brilliant seems to lack transparency down the c axis. It is an intimate gemstone, that needs good light and has a reluctant flash. It weighs 2.40 carats.

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This standard round brilliant would make a fine piece of jewelery . It is eye clean with a bright well saturated look, but not excessively hot. This round weighs 2.41 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a significant, white, non-flashing flaw between the table and the girdle. Its flash driven red color likes bright sun, threw its lower crown. It weighs 2.12 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a nice medium dark, well saturated red hue. It has a few inclusions that are difficult to see in such a rich body color. It weighs 3.33 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is on the orange side of pink. This medium rich tone level gem, shows a nice amount of flash, in its eye clean body, with fine crystal. It weighs 4.55 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a significant and well defined white non-flashing flaw just off the table. It still has great crystal and is a bright flashy 1.85 carats.

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This lavender standard round brilliant was probably heated to lighten its originally dark reddish purple color. It is eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 5.60 carats.

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This beautiful, richly toned purple with reddish high lights is cuprian. It appears to be eye clean. It is cut in a standard round brilliant and weighs 5.60 carats.

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A flatter crown helps this darkly toned pink with a purplish cast, stay flashy. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 2.73 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is a nice eye clean stone. its pink has a moderate tone level and is a pastel. Its fine crystal helps to make the gemstone flashy and it weighs 2.37 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is included, but if you can see them by eye, threw the extremely bright vivid pink color, you're better than me. This gem shouts and weighs 1.42 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has a richer tone value and red flash that brightens the heart. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 2.43 carats.

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This standard round brilliant appears to be eye clean and could be called a baby pink color. It has a medium light tone value and weighs 1.44 carats.

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This beautiful standard round brilliant has a sea of inclusions, but its great vivid pink color grabs the eye. It could not be hotter. It weighs 1.37 carats.

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This standard round brilliant pink rides on the edge of red, with a wash of purple. It has a darker tone and a more sedate personality. It weighs 1.07 carats and is a genuine flawless member of the droplets of color.

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This hot pink standard round brilliant has noticeable inclusions, but it is so hot that they seem minor. It is a really great combination of, tone, color and saturation in a nice sized stone. It weighs 2.28 carats.

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The inclusions in the standard round brilliant are the same as those found in the hot pinks. The rose, a pink with a touch of purple, droplet of color is still bright and flashy. It weighs 1.41 carats.

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This desirable standard round brilliant is eye clean and with a medium toned level of pink. A really normal pink that is bright and flashy, that I like to buy. It also makes a great droplet of color. It weighs 1.01 carats.

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This standard round brilliant delivers just what was on the menu. It is pure hot pink with a medium order of tone on the side. It is flawless and weighs, 1.46 carats, In the pink for the droplets of color.

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This standard round brilliant needs a good level of light to be appreciated as a rose colored, flash driven, droplet of color. The round appears to be eye clean and with a crisp crystal. It weighs 1.12 carats.

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This droplet of color has an exceptional, medium dark, hot pink color. The standard round brilliant has a number of non-reflecting inclusions on the pavilion that don't bother the gem face up. It weighs 1.80 carats.

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This medium toned, eye clean standard round brilliant is bright and flashy. Its color has a good level of saturation without dark features. It weighs 4.98 carats.

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This standard round has a complex dynamic color of a mixture of pink, orange and gold. It appears to be eye clean and with great crystal. It has a medium rich tone value and weighs 4.07 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is slightly include. It is a very nice baby pink. It is bright and flashy. It weighs 1.05 carats.

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This baby pink standard round brilliant is slightly included, but still a bright and flashy gemstone. It weighs 1.40 carats.

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I like this gemstone. This standard round brilliant has a moderate amount of inclusion that have very little impact on this bright hot pink gemstone. The eye candy color along with a strong medium tone level captures the eye. It weighs 2.54 carats.

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This is a nice bright well saturated pink standard round brilliant. It appears to be eye clean and gives you a pure pink spell. It weighs 1.22 carats.

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This is a tourmaline where you have to let your love of color dominate your appreciation of a stone. The poorer quality crystal and moderate number of inclusion must all melt away in its hot, hot pink glory. It does not get hotter, in pink, in tourmaline than this. It weighs .61 carats.

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>> This round is slightly included, but has good crystal. It is a nice baby pink color and weighs 1.15 carats. It came from Afghanistan in a lot with may small pink and pale blue pieces.

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A pretty baby pink pastel standard round brilliant is from Afghanistan. It is moderately included, but still flashy. It weighs 1.03 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is slightly included. it has a nice bright baby pink color. It weighs 1.15 carats.

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This moderately include standard round brilliant does have some flash from feathers, when viewed from the side. Face up the inclusions do effect the stone's flash. Still its bright pink to a bit more red makes the round eye candy. It weighs 2.10 carats.

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This is a smaller round that has a fine eye clean look. Its pink is a well saturated middle of the road pink. It weighs 1.03 carats.

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I like this gemstone. It has a large family in the collection and does not reach its pinnacle. Still it is eye clean and a sharp flasher with good color and tone level. It weighs 1.02 carats.

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This is a nice sized baby pink tourmaline from Afghanistan. The standard round brilliant is slightly included, but with excellent crystal. It weighs 1.77 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is bright and flashy. It came from Afghanistan and its baby pink color is mild and pure. While its clarity is marked by an assortment of faint inclusions. It weighs 1.54 carats.

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Pink dominates this standard round brilliant, but there is touch of violet. Its tone value and brightness of color is a bit richer than baby pink. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 1.15 carats and is a suitable candidate for being a droplet of color.

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This standard round brilliant has a richly toned pink color that has purplish inclinations depending on the light. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 1.15 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is a beautiful gemstone. Its pink is rich and full bodied. It appears to be eye clean and has fine crystal. It weighs 2.57 carats.

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A nice sized standard round brilliant with a fine medium tone pink color. The stone's color is uniform and it also appears to be eye clean. It weighs 1.35 carats.

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This beautiful, very bright pink, standard round brilliant is eye clean and with great crystal. It has a medium tone level that is helped by having horizontally split mains on the pavilion. It weighs 3.97 carats.

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This is a great middle of the road pink, ring sized, stone. The standard round brilliant benefits from great crystal and an eye clean presence. It weighs 2.28 carats of bright well saturated pink.

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It is hard to beat a fine hot pink tourmaline of good tone level in the gem world. This is one of the bright tourmaline winners that appears to be eye clean and with excellent crystal. The standard round brilliant weighs 1.75 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is pink and is eye clean, with great crystal. It is from Afghanistan and weighs 1.17 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is included, but has the power of hot pink to make it eye candy. It is cut with a slightly lower crown than normal. This has minimal impact on the stone, which grabs your eye with its color and won't let go. It weighs 2.21 carats.

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This red is a standard round brilliant that rides the edge of rich pink, but with either designation, this small stone is a beauty. Its medium rich, but very transparent, slightly purplish red color resonates with power. It weighs 1.35 carats and is a happy droplet of color.

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A standard round brilliant with a barely noticeable touch of an inclusion, slides between orange and pink. It is bright and flashy and weighs 1.03 carats.

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I love the complex dynamic color of many tourmaline and this standard round brilliant is a good example of one. Under a light advertised as "day light like" and the real morning light, the round goes from a definite vivid purple red to a rich pink. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal, but there is a white non flashing feather on the side of the crown (Not under the table.) and it effects the gemstone very little. This bit of the wonderful of color in tourmaline weighs 5.00 carats.

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>> This red/pink standard round brilliant has only a modest amount of flash. It has a high tone level with dark elements. It appears to be eye clean and can come to life in brighter light. It weighs 1.49 carats.

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This standard round brilliant has an fine, medium dark toned, orangish pink color. The stone has a significant field of inclusions, that do not flash. The inclusions do muffle the flash of the stone a bit, but I don't find them obnoxious. This bit of a different stone weighs 3.24 carats.

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I see light movement deep inside this darkly toned standard round brilliant, but little flash. It certainly is a stone that benefits from close observation under good lighting conditions. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 3.49 carats.

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This red standard round brilliant has moderate flash and a significant number of inclusions. The dark rich sultry red color hides most of the flaws under the table, but there are white ones around the edge which are easy to see. If you love natural red this stone still has merit. It weighs 2.08 carats.

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This standard round brilliant is smaller, but has everything it needs to be a beautiful gemstone. It also has a distinct color shift between the pink and peach world. It weighs 1.10 carats.

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This green emerald cut is only moderately dichroic. The yellower principle axis doesn't display itself very much because of the long ratio of the emerald cut and the narrower dimensions of the gemstone. Since both dichroic colors are nice bright colors, the eye clean stone's ratios are result

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This standard round brilliant is one of the many troopers from Afghanistan that are baby pink and slightly included. It weighs 1.13 carats and is nice enough to join the droplets of color.

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This heavily included standard round brilliant was cut from Brazilian material that I bought when I first got back into faceting. It is here mainly for the memories. It weighs .79 carats and is a peach pink droplet of color.

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This is one of the nicer baby pinks from the lot I got years ago from Afghanistan. It is only slightly included and has great crystal. It weighs 1.1 carats.

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