Description
Pink Tourmaline may vary in color from pale pink to deep red, and in clarity from flawless transparent gems to opaque rough crystals and although Tourmaline may be found on every continent, fine crystal specimens and gems are still considered rare and can be quite expensive. Its popularity as a gemstone began in 1876, when mineralogist and jeweler George Kunz sold a Green Tourmaline from Maine to the famous Tiffany and Co. in New York.
Tourmaline belongs to a complex family of aluminum borosilicates mixed with iron, magnesium, or other various metals that and depending on the amounts of these different materials in the Tourmaline, it may form as red, pink, yellow, brown, black, green, blue or violet.