Specimen
Tourmaline in Quartz
Pale green tourmaline blades grown straight through milky quartz. Tourmaline builds long prisms with grooves running down their length, so the green arrives as stripes rather than clouds.
Photographed, not listed for sale yet.
This piece gets a price when it is ready to sell.
- Hardness
- Mohs 7
- Crystal system
- trigonal
- Family
- quartz with tourmaline crystals
- Luster
- vitreous
- Streak
- white
- Cleavage
- none
Where tourmaline is found in the field, on the rockhounding map
