A Nigerian pink tourmaline and rubellite from the new find!

[oddoneout]

The stones have a great colour.

 

[chrono]

Date: 3/10/2010 7:09:26 AM
Author: Edward Bristol
Terrible, huh? A gift from heaven for us gem-addicts.

However, I hope the Nigerians are not just buying more machetes from the money they make with these but build some schools or so...

https://www.pricescope.com/photos/stones/picture5539.aspx

uhm? why is the image not coming through? is that still the software glitch?

I think the url is incorrect?

 

[Edward Bristol]

uh, how is that:

OK. that worked.

 

[chrono]

It works! Ed, do you consider that a rubellite or pink tourmaline?

 

[chrono]

This rubellite just loves incandescent lighting and direct sunlight.

 

[chrono]

I swear this is the last picture. Everyone is probably bored to death of seeing the same thing over and over again.

 

[cellentani]

Date: 3/10/2010 11:56:50 AM
Author: Chrono
I swear this is the last picture. Everyone is probably bored to death of seeing the same thing over and over again.

Abolutely not!! Those last pics are great, Chrono, and I truly hope you keep ''em coming. Sometimes, we get gems with such nice color that it''s hard to stop taking pics, and I think our parcel of rubellites fits that category.

Soooo, what are you going to do with your little hot pink??

 

[Cind11]

Pretty! I like the stone in the lower right hand corner best too!

ETA: In the picture where the three are oriented like a triangle I mean.

 

[chrono]

So I lied about not posting anymore tourmaline pictures because the little pinkie felt it deserved better.

This picture still doesn’t do the stone justice but is a lot better than my previous pictures. I have not decided what to do with it yet but there is a good possibility of it being an accent stone in a pendant.

 

[Edward Bristol]

Chrono,

That one is a rubellite, but as I understood dense pink tourmaline is also called rubellite in many countries (unless it is baby pink or so.)

 

[LtlFirecracker]

Beautiful pink stones!!!!