If you have read many of my posts about pink tourmaline, you will see that pink is the most common color, by far, that is suitable for making rounds. So I am a bit jaded when it comes to many average pink rounds without something exciting about the stone. What does it take to get me a excited, a good dose of saturated red. That dose of red lifts this droplet of color almost into the hallowed grounds of a fine red, that is not attained by many tourmaline. This red pink appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs .85 carats.
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.
