Brazilian Tourmaline Mix - $8 to $16/carat
Locality: Brazil, South America

This is a mix of the top Brazil Tourmaline colors, the material is all great color (what I cut most of the time) and clean. It can be cut in just about any design you want ("c" axis's are all open and good color, they will not muddy), I usually cut for yield, as this material is rare and getting harder to find aal of the time..

Currently Available:
 1 each 3.54 carats - $28.32 gold/yellow, best cut "Brilliant Pear" - 8mm x 10mm x 6.2mm deep
1 each 4.64 carats - $74.24 tri-color green/clear/blue green , best cut step - 4.8mm x 25.1mm x 3.2mm deep
1 each 4.11 carats - $32.88 bi-color green to light green, best cut step - 5.1mm x 18.2mm x 4mm deep
1 each 4.36 carats - $69.76 top blue/green, best cut step - 4.8mm x 17.7mm x 4.6mm deep
1 each 16.72 carats - $200.64 saturated yel/gold/grn, best cut oval - 14.6mm x 16.8mm x 9mm deep
1 each 4.40 carats - $35.20 green, best cut rect/oval - 7.6mm x 8.1mm x 7.4mm deep

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Brazilian Green Crystal Tourmaline -$2 to $6/carat
Locality: Brazil, South America

Clean green crystal Tourmaline like this used to be pretty common coming out of Brazil, but most of the mines are not producing this type of rough any more. There used to be a lot of this material commercial cut in step designs. This material is heavily saturated and a has closed "c" axis's (usually), the color is a very nice grass to Kelly green with some blue green areas. I would only recommend that this material be cut in a medium to small size Emerald cut, or better (best) an Opposed bars and checkerboards. If you like dark green flash, and darker stones in general, you will like this material. It is not expensive...

Currently Available:
1 each 4.45 carats - $26.70 green, best cut rectangle - 8mm x 10.8mm x 4.9mm deep
1 each 6.88 carats - $41.28 green, best cut checkerboard, opposed bar - 10mm x 12.6mm x 6.5mm deep
1 each 6.15 carats - $36.90 green, best cut "Smith Bar" - 7.7mm x 10.5mm x 7.4mm deep
1 each 5.81 carats - $23.24 green, best cut square checkerboard - 10mm x 8.7mm x 6.5mm deep
1 each 8.34 carats - $50.04 green, best cut checkerboard, opposed bar - 11.2mm x 10mm x 7.3mm deep
1 each 10.20 carats - $51.00 green, best cut checkerboard, opposed bar - 8.7mm x 13.2mm x 9.7mm deep
1 each 5.39 carats - $32.24 green, best cut checkerboard, opposed bar - 12.1mm x 6.8mm x 6mm deep
1 each 19.96 carats - $119.76 green, best cut checkerboard (couple of dings on the rind, should not be a problem), opposed bar - 13.3mm x 13.5mm x 12.6mm deep
1 each 10.08 carats - $50.40 green, best cut checkerboard, opposed bar - 9.6mm x 14mm x 7mm deep
1 each 8.69 carats - $43.45 green, best cut checkerboard, opposed bar - 9mm x 13mm x 8.7mm deep
1 each 6.32 carats - $31.60 green, best cut rectangle - 7.2mm x 14.5mm x 6.9mm deep

Odds and Ends by Parcel:
1 each 22.36 carats - $67.08 green, 5 stones
1 each 25.70 carats - $77.10 green, 6stones

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