About Tourmalines

 

  • Tourmaline (碧璽；トルマリン) comes in almost every colour, and has earned the name “Rainbow Gemstone’.
  • An Egyptian Tales: Ancient Egyptian believed that Tourmaline got its amazing colours because it broke through a rainbow on its journey to the Earth.
  • Tourmaline is the birthstone for October.
  • The most sought-after bi/tri-colour tourmalines are the Watermelon tourmalines, where the crystals may be green at one end and pink at the other.
  • The rarest tourmaline is the Brazilian paraiba, which is known for its vivid neon blue colour. One Brazilian paraiba tourmaline is mined for every 10,000 diamonds.
  • The China Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后) was said to be obsessed with pink tourmalines.