Pink and water melon colored tourmaline are my favorite gemstones. If the center of the slice is red and the area around it green, the stone is given the nickname 'water melon'. Although there are plenty of gemstone deposits which contain tourmaline's, good qualities and fine colors are not often discovered among them. For this reason, the price spectrum of the tourmaline is almost as broad as that of its color.
Tourmaline's are gems with an incomparable variety of colors. The reason, according to an old Egyptian legend, is that the tourmaline, on its long journey up from the center of the Earth, passed over a rainbow. In doing so, it assumed all the colors of the rainbow. And that is why it is still referred to as the 'gemstone of the rainbow' today.
In the fascinating world of gemstones, the tourmaline is very special. Its high availability and its glorious, incomparable color spectrum make it one of our most popular gemstones - and apart from that, almost every tourmaline is unique.
Pictured left to right: Green tourmaline necklace by Lauren Schott, faceted pink tourmaline stone and rough water melon tourmaline.
For more information on tourmaline contact your local jeweler or go to the site listed below.
Bibliography: International Colored Gemstone Society http://www.gemstone.org/gem-by-gem/gem-by-gem-by-variety.html
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