Tourmaline often occurs in long thin needles densely included inside Quartz. Such material is known as Tourmalinated Quartz. Tourmalinated quartz is carved into valuable ornamental objects and figures.
Tourmaline has a hardness of 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale, making it a relatively durable gemstone for everyday wear.
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There are a few different kinds of gemstones that come in lavender. Amethyst is the one most people are familiar with but others include spinel and purple sapphire. Tourmaline and garnet can also exhibit shades of lavender.
Tourmaline is the Official Maine gemstone.
Tourmaline is a group of several different minerals that have similar crystal structures, but complex and variable chemical formulas. This gemstone occurs in almost every color.
Pink sapphire, pink tourmaline, rubellite, rose quartz, kunzite, morganite, pink topaz, pink spinel.
The gemstone tourmaline is found in Maine, and is the Maine state gemstone. Other things mined in Maine include gold, mica, and large crystals of beryl and quartz.
Tourmaline, it is actually the State Mineral
Tourmaline was the first gemstone mined in the United States by miners. Tourmaline mining began at Mount Mica, Maine in 1822, and with starts and stops, has continued to the present. Maine designated tourmaline as the official state gemstone in 1971.
Tourmaline is a group of gem species. It comes in a wide variety of colors. The best known varieties of tourmaline are green tourmaline, pink or red tourmaline, and blue tourmaline.
North Carolina is well known for its emeralds, as well as sapphires and even rubies. Large quantaties of quartz crystals and tourmaline are also found there.
Tourmaline has a hardness of 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale, making it a relatively durable gemstone for everyday wear.
Diamond is a non-quartz gemstone.
Examples: ruby, emerald, diopside, tourmaline.
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gemstone
Spinel, tourmaline, topaz, sapphire, and beryl.