Tourmaline Pendants have a variety of exciting colours in
any of the gemstone group. Crystal tourmalines have inclusions and fractures
and can be deeply rich in colour and clear.
The colours are basically all shades and tints, so are ideal
as pendants.
Tourmaline has the phenomenon of different colours appearing
when they are viewed from different directions and angles.
After the stones have been cut and polished and to improve
the colour of Tourmaline, they are irradiated, and heat treated.
Tourmaline gemstones shares the birthstone for October with
Opal. It is also considered the gemstone
for an eighth wedding anniversary.
Tourmalines are very highly accepted for its affordability,
quality and colour.
Bicolour and tricolour Tourmalines were given its name
because of the length of its crystal that has a whole lot of different colours.
Tourmaline colours are as below:-(info@palagems.com)
Rubellite -Red
Indicolite - Blue
Chrome - intense green colored by chromium/vanadium
Bi-color- tourmalines which display two or more colors in
the same stone
Watermelon - bi-colour tourmalines which show a green skin
and a red core, there are often cut as slices
Canary - bright yellow tourmaline from Malawi
Paraiba- intense blue to green from Paraiba, Brazil, colored
by copper.
Cat’s eye - chatoyant tourmaline in a variety of colour.
Color change - changes from green in daylight to red in
incandescent light
According to history, Brazil is the main source of tourmaline
for over 500 years.
Tourmalines were also discovered and mined in Nigeria,
United States, Tanzania, Pakistan, Namibia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Sri
Lanka.
