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Tag Archives: purple
A dynamic tidal basin of color, yellow, orange, brown, purple, pink round
It is nice to finish a smaller standard round brilliant of 1.75 carats without having anything to pull my hair out for. The stone is probably rich in manganese of different valence states and high manganese can lead to a … Continue reading
A medium toned purple with significant flaws.#281
This standard round brilliant is typical of the type of cuprian tourmaline that became available after the world was introduced to its beauty. About half of it is clean and flashy while the rest is so included that it obstructs … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, medium, Mozambique, outstanding, purple
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Copper and Manganese made a Lady of Her, round#271
I am not a great believer in luck, but there are times when you’re game plan works out. My game plan with the collection was not to secure the best investments or even the prettiest tourmaline, but to chase color. … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc., Laurellite
Tagged color change, cuprian, laurellite, lavender, Mozambique, outstanding, pastel, personal story, purple
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Significantly included, Laurellite, cuprian, round, Mozambique#947
This standard round brilliant has a nice purple color in daylight, but its flash is significantly lessened by it feathers. I say daylight with the purple, because it is a Laurellite. Laurellite is a name I gave to a new … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc., Laurellite
Tagged blue-purple, bruce fry discovery, color change, cuprian, laurellite, Mozambique, purple, round
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Included, Oval, Laurellite, Cuprian, Elbaite from Mozambique.#945
This oval was actually the first Laurellite that I cut. It is not as colorful as her sister #944, since her color change goes from purple to more of a grayed blue, but she set me up to take action … Continue reading
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Tagged blue-purple, bruce fry discovery, color change, cuprian, laurellite, Mozambique, oval, personal story, purple
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Included purple oval with blue areas, Mozambique, cuprian#1192
This oval is pretty heavily included and the inclusions do effect its crystal quality and flash. Still it has the rare color purple and the added interest that it has blue areas in the gemstone. This stone pushes the cleanliness … Continue reading
Really a tourmaline? Purple green bicolor, round.#1168
First of all, cutting a round out of a bicolor is not the “normal” way of bring the best out it. But the rough was unbalanced and so stubby that to cut an emerald cut would not show the colors … Continue reading
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Tagged bicolor, green, horizontal split mains, purple, unique
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Included and flawed, but still a laurellite, cuprian, Mozambique#1164
The list of problems in the title makes this stone sound worse than it looks. The flaws are not under the table and the inclusion/poor crystal is not bad enough to stop the standard round brilliant from flashing. So this … Continue reading
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Tagged color change, cuprian, laurellite, Mozambique, purple
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Medium toned purple with a bit more pink round cuprian.#43
The rough, for this standard round brilliant, was probably heated to lighten its original dark reddish purple color. The heating gradually reduces the reddish component in the color. This medium toned, lavender pink round is eye clean and with fine … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, Mavuco, Mozambique, pink-purple, purple
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A medium tone purple with pink passion, round, cuprian#42
This standard round brilliant was probably heated to lighten its original, dark reddish purple, color. The dark reddish purple tourmaline was the only really clean material, originally found at Mavuco, Mozambique. This excellent example of purple tourmaline with a … Continue reading
Medium toned, lightly included lavender droplet of color, cuprian #11
I love lavender tourmaline and can turn a very deaf eye to their inclusions. But with this standard round brilliant I don’t have to. It has some fine scatter, a but it is pretty transparent and flashy. The color has … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, lavender, Mozambique, purple
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Eye clean with good crystal, lavender droplet of color, cuprian#1
I usually don’t advertise the gemstones cleanliness in its title, but with cuprian tourmaline it is a question with every stone, no matter how small. I am sure that I purchased the rough and finished the standard round brilliant before … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, lavender, purple
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Include sleep time purple with an attraction to me, oval#130
My principal dealer out of Africa still manages to pick up a few cuprian tourmaline pieces of rough (2013) and I keep spending too much for too little because of my purple addition. I bought the rough for this gemstone … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Cutting Tourmaline, Etc., Laurellite
Tagged cuprian, cutting tourmaline, laurellite, oval, purple
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Light pastel non-copper purple, droplet of color.#648
A standard round brilliant, non copper, less tone level than the following cuprian purple, but very similar hue (color). It weighs 1.01 carats. A standard round brilliant, cuprian, a bit darker than the non copper above, but with a … Continue reading
Copper plus manganese equals a well saturated purple, round#641
No one should get too blase about well saturated purples in tourmaline. It is rare and always will be rare because the saturation, if not the actual color, is dependent on both copper and manganese chromophores. Manganese is pretty common … Continue reading
Included pinker shade of cuprian tourmaline, Mozambique#631
This pink definitely has the glow of copper’s purple and it has been confirmed with my spectrometer. It is included, but the medium light, well saturated, standard round brilliant is still bright and flashy because most of the area corrupted … Continue reading
Cuprian, Purple droplet of color from Mozambique (included)#630
A very nice rare color in tourmaline, I call purple, needs copper to being it to the level of saturation that I see in this standard round brilliant. The inclusions, which frankly are expected, can not draw me away from … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, Mozambique, purple
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Clean, Bright, Cuprian, Purple Punch, droplet of color.#619
I think that I have posted about how forgiving I am with purple tourmaline that are cuprian. Well this standard round brilliant just shrugs the concern off with a great eye clean body and a sparkling bright purple personality. A … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, Mozambique, purple
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Grayed Purple Droplet of Color without Copper#611
The vast majority of purplish tourmalines do not have copper as a chromophore, but I remember the cuprians the most because they are saturated. (and expensive) This droplet of color has a nice medium toned lavender color, but the grays … Continue reading
Included pink with a speck of purple, dot of color.#603
It is amazing to me how much being “in” can matter when it comes to price. I truly love cuprian tourmaline, but only stones with higher quality colors should warrant a big differential in price. (in my opinion) When I … Continue reading
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Tagged color dot, cuprian, pink, purple
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Snappy, sassy, cuprian, pinkish purple, but still lightly included oval#549
When it comes to cuprian tourmaline with a great pinkish purple color, I am very forgiving with cleanliness, but in this case I don’t really have to be. It has a moderate tone level, which is beautifully complemented by just … Continue reading
Purple brown in a dark package, oval#546
This gemstone is an example of how you have to buy in the world of tourmaline rough to quest for color. I consider tourmaline to be a world of color possibilities. Opportunities appear which demand action because if you miss … Continue reading
A purple without copper, oval#533
This purple without copper does not have a good saturation level, but it is a purple and therefor rare in the collection. The stone is included, but its medium dark tone level tends to obscure the inclusions. (I just spotted … Continue reading
A heavily included experiment in the round.#510
The standard round brilliant that is heavily included was just an experiment. I had purchased some Brazilian “salad”(low grade faceted gemstones) to try and see if I could get something different.(I did get a couple of grayed purples that are … Continue reading
Decent lavender without copper emerald cut.#715
This emerald cut will not win any prizes for cleanliness or excessive brightness since its crystal is below average, but its color assure it a place in the collection. This is one of my better non-cuprian purples and it is … Continue reading
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Tagged dichroic, emerald cut, lavender, Madagascar, non-cuprian, purple
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Large Exquisite Purple Round, One of the Best Tourmalines in Collection#291
When I started faceting again after a long hiatus, one of the colors I wanted very much was bluish purples. I could get purples as shades of pink and red, but to go to the blue side was unattainable. Then … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc., Laurellite
Tagged blue-purple, cuprian, laurellite, outstanding, purple, unique
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Copper and Purple hand in hand, round#281
I usually put included before everything else when it is a definite factor in the gemstone, but with cuprian purple it is a different ball game. Purple ,like this stone has, requires copper if it comes from Mozambique, I think. … Continue reading
Slightly included, gorgeous, lavender round, that is cuprian.#271
I don’t believe that this saturated (purity of color) a purple exists in tourmaline without a copper component in its chemistry. (I think it maybe possible with iron and manganese and I haven’t seen it all, so who knows for … Continue reading
Lavender IceT that is a droplet too. Copper Bearing
Sometimes it is not too bad to be small. I am a standard round brilliant and I am in demand because I am lavender and eye clean. I just wish that the IceT group didn’t think I belonged. I hate … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, IceT, lavender, pale, purple
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Violet droplet sighted on the starbord side, captain.
It has been a long journey for this smaller and included gemstone to reach safe harbor in a plastic box in my collection. In a distant land, awash in gemstones, the secret of its color was undiscovered. Then some natives … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Droplets of Color, Etc.
Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, paraiba, purple, violet
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A purple that wants to be lavender without copper, emerald cut
Well it is time to let you see the difference or not between two similar colors. One is the classic lavender of copper in tourmaline from Mozambique. It is the first image and is a round. The second is … Continue reading
A lighter lavender with a selection of moderately light inclusions, round
Lavender, in the words of a poet, is copper’s sweet song of seduction in tourmaline. It seduces me into accepting flaw material that would be questionable in other colors of tourmaline. And when I am reward with an included gemstone, … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, lavender, Mozambique, purple
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Happily it is pink purple time again at the cuprian bar, oval
This example of a color that is owned by the cuprian bar is only slightly included. That makes it the toast of the town and puts many other pink purples from Mozambique to shame. Still she doesn’t have the best … Continue reading
A different purple without copper round
This standard round brilliant has a color of tourmaline that is difficult to categorized. It is some shade of purple that is a mixture of pink, purple and gray.’ It bears little resemblance to the copper, red purples, that have … Continue reading
Lavender purple without copper droplet
This standard round brilliant is a welcome guest because it is pastel purple without copper content. One of the complexities of color in tourmaline is the production of similar if not exactly the same color by different chromophores. In this … Continue reading
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Tagged droplet-of-color, lavender, non-cuprian, purple, unique
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A shade of pink purple owned by copper, droplet of color
Color in tourmaline is truly a wonderful trip, but you have to be careful about coming to conclusions about its chemistry based on color alone. Two areas of major confusion are the coloring of Dravite the species with either chrome … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Droplets of Color, Etc., Pink
Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, pink, purple
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There are bound to be inclusions with purple, cuprian, droplets of color
I have one museum stone that is eye clean and the purple of a life time. I also have clean paler purple tourmalines that probably were partial heat treated from large, dark toned, reddish pebbles, that were found very early … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, purple
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great color, purple, I know this is cuprian, droplet of color.
I don’t need a spectrometer to know that this standard round brilliant is cuprian, though I did check it out. It is written in the purple color of its being. I could use a fancier name for purple, but I … Continue reading
Stormy purple droplet of color.
c The rough for this standard round droplet of color came from Madagascar. It is a rather peculiar grayed purple that I have more examples of. I get the feeling of a cold austere soul that will join the droplets … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, Madagascar, purple
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Included Pastel Lilac from Copper Oval
Looking at this delicate lilac oval whose color is a blessing from copper and comparing it to the exact same material in an oval half it size points up somethings about pastels. While darkly toned material can get too opaque … Continue reading
Purple, Included, Purple tourmaline oval
The title is not a mistake made by my terrible typing. When I see a purple tourmaline that is rich and with good saturation, I know that I probably have a copper bearing gemstone and a rare color to boot. … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, laurellite, Mozambique, oval, purple
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A Dark Plot Leads to a Red Purple Round Again.#1100
The sun is up and bright so this droplet of color can spread a brighter flash and announce its red purple color. I don’t consider red purples with their dark tones, Rubellites and they consistently have a lack of … Continue reading
Darker red purple trilliant cut.#1091
I don’t use the trilliant cut very much because I prefer shield cuts for triangular shaped rough. But this red purple, which is not a rubellite in my book, has such a high tone level that I needed as … Continue reading
A Purple without Copper Oval#1067
This gemstone has a place in the collection not because of its great beauty, but it is attractive, or size, though it is a decent size, or clarity, though it is has good crystal or … It is here … Continue reading
A moderately included dark tone level plume, round#1049
This plume, rich red purple, colored gemstone has a richer tone level than the average in the collection. This tends to be the case for most of the red purples and they are more a sultry stone than a … Continue reading
Red/Blue makes Mauve droplet of color#1004
This is a peculiar droplet of color from Nigeria. I have red/blue on the back of the box and I know that they were the colors in the rough. I must have seen them when I wrote the sticker, … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, droplet-of-color, mauve, purple, red
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The long and winding road of testing “Laurellite”
Laurellite is a name that I have given to a new variety of copper bearing Elbaite tourmaline from Mozambique, that demonstrates a Reverse Alexandrite Color Change from purple in natural light to blue to blue green in incandescent light. I … Continue reading
Achroite with a secret#966
There is always a danger in seeing what you want or expect to see in a pale colored stone with tourmaline. Many to most tourmalines have two colors (a/b and c axis) and those colors can be quite sensitive to … Continue reading
Posted in Achroite, Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc.
Tagged achroite, blue, cuprian, purple, unique
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Purple Oval of Copper Bearing Beauty#959
I love this stone, I love purple in tourmaline, I love copper bearing tourmaline and I love getting a nice stone for a decent price. I consider this medium shade of purple to be only found in copper containing … Continue reading
Pink Purple Emerald cut nice tone#949
This good sized ring stone at 3.68 carats is a fine bright, but sultry pink purple. I see a couple of flecks deep in the stone by eye, but they are not detracting and the stone has a very … Continue reading
Laurellite and a gray day in Mars.
My best Laurellite under florescent light. (5.69 carats) Small oval Laurellite under florescent light. (5.39 carats) Large oval Laurellite under florescent light. (27.13 carats) I have a tray of stones home because I am writing posts about them. This … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, bruce fry discovery, color change, cuprian, laurellite, Mozambique, purple, unique
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Moderately included Laurellite round#947
This round is more included than I like and is part of the collection because it is a color changer and a rare color, I call it Laurellite. (see other post for more of the story of Laurellite. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Laurellite
Tagged blue, bruce fry discovery, cuprian, laurellite, purple, unique
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Big Oval Blue Purple that did not get away.#943
Buying tourmaline rough over the inter net or even in person can be an adventure. This large oval, at 27.13, carats is one of the larger gemstones in the collection. It was cut from a piece of rough that … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, bruce fry discovery, color change, laurellite, oval, purple
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Oval Pink with a wisper of Purple#934
I am looking at this oval gem under morning light and seeing a pink that has some cast to its hue, but I can’t put my finger on it. I look at the its box and I have written … Continue reading
A purple to blue called “Laurellite” by me.#926
This smaller emerald cut is not pure and has somewhat muted colors, but is very exciting to me. You have to work with lighting to appreciate the special place this unheated cuprian tourmaline from Mozambique holds in the world … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, bruce fry discovery, cuprian, emerald cut, laurellite, purple
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A Quick Rainbow with Droplets of Color
I was sitting at the computer and thinking about how to show off tourmaline in a simple post. I decided to grab a rainbow of droplets of color. I call small rounds that have no real claim to fame except … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, droplet-of-color, green, orange, purple, rainbow, red, yellow
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An cuprian oval with mixed colors and a radioactive past
In the quest to completely fill the color wheel with tourmaline examples, the hardest range of colors is blue/purple. When Africa began to produce lavenders to purples that could be slipping into the blue purple range I really tried … Continue reading
passionate plume, a red purple with a different twist
Very few of my tourmalines have actual picked up a name that stays with it very long, but this is an exception. It is a large stone. over 10 carats, with a high tone level that demanded that the stone … Continue reading