True Copper Bearing Paraiba Tourmaline - $8 - (Springfield, MO)
This is a gemstone most people have never seen it is very rare in the early 1980 s the Jose de Batalha mine in the Brazilian state of Paraiba A man named Hetorita found a tourmaline color never seen before This new tourmaline color was a bluish green different than any color ever seen The gem had a neon glow to the color that is really beautiful After testing this new stone we found that the color and neon glow was produced by copper manganese and a small trace of gold The new deposit of tourmaline was a big hit in the gem market and by the time the 90 s hit the mine had dried up Today the Top Gem World Class stones are going for 25 000 per carat and up Sorry to say this isn t 1 of them TGWC stones It has the color and the glow but it not as clean as it could be This gemstone weights 2 01 carats cut in an oval shape The measurements are 7 06 x 9 10 mm and the clarity SI one Tourmaline is usual an included gemstone it s what they call a class 3 The class III means these gems is...
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