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Tourmaline

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MGR596680

Tourmaline

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Description
Locality: 
Paprook, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2.1 × 1.9 cm
Description

A wonderful multi-colored crystal in very best quality. At the bottom you can see a pink zoning, then it turns to green, which shows different steps of tones and saturation. Then a small area even shows a touch of blue and finally at the end-point you can see pink to violet color. This is a different color than the zoning at the base. The crystal is sharp terminated and faces - including the modified end-points - show very fine luster.The first photo in the gallery shows the specimen with minor backlight, the other photos on light background were done under daylight without any light effects. No significant damages to report.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7