Tourmaline Phacolite This Diaspore is a beautiful

This Diaspore is a beautiful "Brilliant Trillion" cut gem with very very slight inclusions and a gentle purplish-pink hue in incandescent lighting but shows more of a yellow-pink hue in LED lighting

Here we have a very dramatic

and only a handful of worthwhile pieces survive in collections today

I apologize for not having a more specific locality

Specimen #BURMA22102

Tourmaline Phacolite This Diaspore is a beautifulA beautiful, virtually eye clean Tourmaline gem with a lovely pinkish orange color and slight peach highlights depending upon the angle at which the stone is viewed. It is considered rare for Tourmaline from any locality to produce orange colored stones and this one is similar to the ever popular and highly sought after "Padparachsda" Sapphire gems, which can retail for high numbers. Tourmaline is classified as a "Type 3" gemstone (same category as