Tourmaline (Tricolor) Ludlamite When the samples were examined

When the samples were examined with daylight-equivalent illumination and compared to incandescent illumination

The crystals glow with color when backlit and show thin black internal "phantoms"

Several great

This piece was collected in the late 1970s – early 1980s and remained in a private collection for decades

but you take what you can get with this material

Tourmaline (Tricolor) Ludlamite When the samples were examinedTourmalines are one of the few gems that occur in natural bi color or tri color stones. This beautiful stone was cut from a crystal found nearly 40 years ago in Brazil. The stone shows a wonderful pink color on one end, with a rich green color on the other end and a beautiful colorless thin "Achroite" zone in the middle. This gem has a very slight amount of inclusions, which are difficult to see with the naked eye, but remember that Tourmaline is