Description

Detailed Description

A beautiful pair of deep green elbaite tourmaline crystals, flanked by albite crystals. The tourmalines are dark, with a more moderate green colour at their terminations, best visible with strong light.  The first photo was taken using a strong side reflector to emphasize the internal colour. The piece stands perfectly for display. In excellent condition, no damage to the singly-terminated tourmaline crystals. Great aesthetics, with these slightly divergent tourmalines!

About These Stak Nala Tourmalines

Since the 1980s, elbaite toumaline crystals from the pegmatites at Stak Nala have been known worldwide. Particularly distinctive and prized when associated with albite crystals, these tourmalines are usually colour-zoned, with dark green to black-appearing centre sections, with zones of green, pink, blue or colourless zones  at the terminations – often, a closer inspection with strong light or a strong reflective background are needed to show these zones. The doubly-terminated crystals from Stak Nala are super examples of hemimorphism (the crystal forms present at one termination are different from those at the other termination). I was fortunate to acquire these from a member of the family that mines them.