Login
-
Recent Posts
- List of facts about tourmaline, an opinion
- No Paraiba in top ten list of most valuable/rarest or beautiful gemstones??
- #261 and a bright red cuprian smile
- Included bright sparkling red round. #261
- Getting threw the winter, 1/3 carat of fire
- The amount of lead in tourmaline.
- Color my world of tourmaline.
- Copper’s limited roll in coloring Paraiba/cuprian tourmaline.
Tags
- achroite
- afghan
- baby pink
- bi-color
- blue
- blue-green
- brown
- closed-c
- color-shift
- color dot
- cuprian
- cutting tourmaline
- dichroic
- dravite
- droplet-of-color
- emerald cut
- golden
- green
- green-blue
- hot pink
- IceT
- indicolite
- medium green
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- non-dichroic
- open-c
- orange
- outstanding
- oval
- pale
- pastel
- peach
- personal story
- pink
- purple
- purple-pink
- red
- rubellite
- seafoam
- shield
- unique
- verdelite
- yellow
- yellow-green
Recent Comments
- Romeo48065 on Laurellite a reverse color change tourmaline is unique.
- toadandspur on Outstanding Achroite with a Mystery
- Bruce Fry on Welcome to a World of Color in Tourmaline
- David Walsh on Paraiba/paraiba type tourmaline and treatments.
- rexguo on Laurellite a reverse color change tourmaline is unique.
Archives
- May 2019
- September 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- November 2017
- October 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
Tag Archives: dark-c
Strange and unique, possibly chrome green emerald cut.
Well here is another gemstone hot off the dop stick. The rough had a natural table that was obvious and the tables outline looked rather like a “D”. It had a moderately strong degree of dichroism with a very nice … Continue reading
An eye opening golden green emerald cut.#445
I knew there was something “funny” with this emerald cut as soon as I focused on it. It has golden green on the storage box, but color was not that big a deal with this mostly green emerald cut. I … Continue reading
Semi open ends with a flatter crown, green emerald cut.#433
This stone appears to be open on the ends and I cut it with the normal angles. Still the c axis ends lack the expected transparency. The flatter crown gives the stone a wide open look. It appears to be … Continue reading
Semi closed ended, spicy green emerald cut#425
This spicy emerald cut with semi closed ends is pretty flashy for an emerald cut. It appears to be eye clean and have fine crystal. It has a medium tone level and weighs 1.24 carats. Bruce
Well saturated green with a touch of blue, closed ended, emerald cut.#411
If I was an emerald, I would want to look like this green with a touch of blue tourmaline. (like many synthetic emeralds). The tone level of medium dark along with being eye clean and with fine crystal blows many … Continue reading
Steep ends on a semi closed, well saturated, medium toned green emerald cut#405 cut.
This emerald cut has steeply cut ends because it has semi closed ends. Its well saturated medium tone a/b axis color is very nice. It weighs .72 carats. Bruce
Snappy green classic green emerald cut with semi closed ends#402
This small emerald cut is quite flashy considering that its ends are semi closed. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. The medium toned, snappy green a/b axis is what really makes this gemstone. It weighs 1.13 … Continue reading
Long ratio, semi closed ends, spicy green emerald cut.#1145
I went to college in Colorado in the late sixties from New Jersey. Besides being introduced to many delicacies of western fare, I ran into Mexican food for the first time. When I asked my “friends” which salsa I should … Continue reading
Slightly included pastel golden orange emerald cut.#1140
This tourmaline looks a lot like a topaz I cut years ago. The emerald cut has a nice medium light tone level with darker, but not closed ends. It flash very nicely and is only slightly included. And the color … Continue reading
Another blue green round with transparency problems.#122
This standard round brilliant is a medium dark toned disappointment. The lack of transparency is again evident with a stone cut perpendicular to the c axis. It does have some muted flash and a decent bluish color, but it is … Continue reading
A green color dot with apparent c axis transparency problems.#115
I have been finding more tourmaline with c axis transparency problems than I realized in the collection. They have all been blues and greens. This medium dark, small standard round brilliant seems to have joined the group of known examples. … Continue reading
Classic bright saturated green with dark ends emerald cut.#399
This is a quintessential example of a classic green tourmaline taken to perfection. Its central color is a bright grass green, but it is so dichroic that the ends are completely dense. To generate flash in the ends and minimize … Continue reading
Dark ends, dark tone, but great saturated blue emerald cut.#278
This personal stone has limited flash in bars across the stone beclause the ends are very closed. But the flash is a great blue that is rare in tourmaline. It has one faint narrow fracture that is not deep and … Continue reading