Tourmaline (Bicolor cat’s eye)

Tourmaline (Bicolor cat’s eye)A gorgeous richly bi colored stone from Brazil featuring a mix of lovely pink and orange tones. The stone shows different colors in different lighting as it will appear more pink in some lights and more orange in others, but you will see a mix of the two in virtually every kind of light. It's well cut, so it looks very attractive up close and far away. Additionally, there are a handful of small "cat's eye" inclusions that can be seen near the center

You can see that the twin (on the {100} face) is clearly defined

but most of the crystals are undamaged

Dozens of soft pink colored “rosettes” comprising compressed rhombohedra or “discs” of Rhodochrosite are intergrown with beautiful white Quartz crystals and gently sprinkled atop contrasting black Sphalerite matrix to make this small cabinet display specimen a great representation of the material from this famous locality

These are very well-formed crystals and are only very slightly skeletal or hoppered

Good quality all the way around

The crystals are associated with tan/pink botryoidal Siderite and are sitting on a contrasting gemmy brown scalenohedral Calcite on matrix

Alexandrite is not actually a species

Regardless of whether the crystal is twinned or not

with only a few very minor imperfections

but it's the blue crystals that are rare and sought after by collectors

gemmier and show excellent crystal form

but it has a more muted appearance on the other side