TourmalineA beautiful thumbnail specimen of eye catching pink Tourmaline from Mogok with minor attached white Feldspar and no matrix. The main crystal is very sharp and lustrous with smooth, well formed faces and good internal gemminess that allows that wonderful pink color to glow with a bit of backlighting. If you flip the piece over, you'll see the central "core" of the crystal is a dark green (virtually black) hue. No damage on the top display side of the

black cyclic twinned crystals which are associated with unique and very rarely seen prismatic Quartz crystals (measuring up to 2

This specimen is from the type locality for both species

but not often are the crystals as large

and when it arrived

This remarkably attractive specimen features beautiful lustrous

or if you've always wanted to get your hands on a nice Baddeleyite specimen

If you collect rarities

this would make a great addition to your collection

but it appears that the rich color is due to a micro coating of transparent Quartz on top of the Vauxite

and better than most I have seen from the mine

Specimen # BOL711B101

sharp crystals in spherical form associated with rarely seen brass colored Stannite crystals and very unusual