Loose faceted Chrome Green Tourmaline round cut .20 cts 4mm q513

The gemstone Tourmaline is the official birthstone for October as adopted by the American National Association of Jewelers in 1912. It also the tradidional birthstone for October, the stone for the Zodiac sign of Leo, and the accepted gem for the 8th wedding anniversary.

The name Tourmaline comes from the Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) word tura mali which translates as the stone of mixed colors. These stones are 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale of hardness.

Tourmaline is available in a wide variety of colors from black to bluish-black, dark brown, yellow, medium brown, blue to neon blue, lime to dark forrest green, red and reddish purple, yellow, pink, and colourless.

Bi-colored and multicoloured tourmalines may be green at one end and pink at the other, watermelon tourmalines are green on the outside and pink on the inside. Some stones are dichroic meaning they appear to change color when viewed from different angles.

The most expensive tourmalines are the blue indicolite, green verdelite and pink rubellite.

Cat's Eye Tourmaline exhibits a "cat;s eye" effect similar to what is commonly seen in tiger's eye cabochons. Chrome Tourmaline is colored by chromium resulting in a beautiful green stone that is often confused with emerald or the tsavorite garnet. Indicolite is a dark blueish black stone. The Paraiba tourmaline is a bright neon-blue and Rubellite is a deep reddish purple stone. Schorl is the name given to black tourmalines which are the most commonly found tourmalines.

Tourmalines are mined everywhere in the world including Africa, Afghanistan, Africa, Australia, Brazil, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Siberia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, the USA, and Zimbabwe.

Folklore, Legend, and Healing Properties: 

Ancient legend says that tourmaline is found in all colors because it travelled along a rainbow and gathered all the the rainbow's colors.

Tourmaline is believed to strengthen the body and spirit, especially the nervous system, blood, and lymphs. It is also thought to inspire creativity and was used extensively as a tailsman by artists and writers.

 

 

Hardness is 7-7.5 - Composition is (NaCa)(LI,MgFe,Al)9B3Si6(O,OH)31 -

This stone represents all colour of the rainbow and each colour has a distinct frequency that alters the human condition. -

 As a general rule each of the colours relates to a chakra and affects that energy centre of the body. - Clear or White Relates to the crown chakra, it amplifies and adjusts the other colours and the energy centres of the body.

It synthesizes the will to serve on all levels thereby serving ones? Self. - Blue Triggers the throat and the third eye giving way for compassionate and vivid communication of universal truths and ideals. It helps one in obtaining higher realms and relaying that information. -

 Pink (Rubellite) Awakens the heart chakra and allows the universality of unconditional love. Galvanises loving aspirations to be realized in this reality. -

 Green Builds the immune system, rids toxins in an appropriate manner and helps healing in the newly cleansed system. It also alters negativity and generates an aura of affluence that transform to abundant material gain. -

Yellow Cares for the solar plexus letting it open to the desires and a willingness to let the unavoidable changes to take place that would allow for the desires to reveal itself. -

 Orange Stimulates the creativity, and the activity of procreate on the physical plane that which is already held within the mental. - Black Anchoring, it helps one to maintain their relation to the reality no matter the outward visual aspect. It evokes the ideas that are essential originally in order to start the creation process. -
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