Rubellite

Terminated crystal of vivid-pink rubellite tourmaline. Color intensity varies from pale zones to brilliant pink in the upper and lower zones. External surfaces are complete with slight edge frittering. Great color! Ex. Robert C. Linck (1905-1970). Overall size of mineral specimen: 36x24x21 mm. Size of individual crystals: 36 mm.

© 2003 John H. Betts

20 x 6 x 5 mm. RFC T1482.

© 2007 Michael C. Roarke

Good mushroom Tourmaline var. Rubellite; lustrous crystal from a 2005 find.

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Mushroom crystal of Tourmaline var.Rubellite, from a 2005 find in Burma.

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A translucent, lustrous, dark raspberrry-red, trigonal tourmaline crystal with a schorl core from the recent finds at Mogok, Burma. These "mushroom" shaped tourmalines are some of the most unusual tourmalines ever found and they are much sought after. 3.2 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm

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From Dr. Bernardino Ferro collection, picture width ~ 40 mm. Rui Nunes photo, July 2008.

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Heart of mushroom tourmaline Collection JP Lassort

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Very nice matrix specimen consisting of brownish lustrous smoky quartzes with cream white k-feldspar crystals, topped by striking pink "mini-mushrooms" of rubellite and some whitish albite. Width of specimen is ca 15 cm. Those pegmatite matrix specimens are hard to find in this quality. My collection, acquired in Munich 2006.

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A VERY gemmy (for the Himalaya) tourmaline crystal, well-terminated, with fine deep pink color, weighing 6 grams. Excellent luster, and note how the pretty little lavender lepidolites really dress this crystal up! 4.2 x 1.2 x 0.8cm

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Good quality mushroom tourmaline (Var. Rubellite).

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1.9 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm. A super gem rubellite crystal, doubly-terminated.

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14 x 12 x 6 cm. Cluster of large elbaite crystals. Ex. Dr. Eugene Meieran, William Larson Collections.

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6.3 x 2.2 x 2.0 cm. Rubellite tourmaline with purple lepidolites and the lower portion of the crystal has a green interior. Ex. George Elling Collection. 48 grams.

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This specimen hosts some of the most vivid red, lustrous, beautiful tourmalines I have yet seen from Burma for the style ("mushrooms"). They really ARE this juicy, in person. Maybe more so. What is amazing to me is that they drape over a euhedral large feldpsar crystal and so you get a most unusual contrast. I have not seen such a nice association ...

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The specimen is extraordinary, both for its characteristics and for its size. The crystals form a slightly divergent group, are prismatic and are terminated by the three faces of a flat rhombohedron. Color and luster are exceptional and so is the transparency.
Minh Tien pegmatite, Luc Yen district, Yenbai province, Vietnam
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10.8 x 4.2 x 3.4 cm. This is a really fine, large crystal of classic Himalaya Mine rubellite, showing a lustrous basal termination at one end (top here) and a multiterminated prismatic tip at the other (shown down here as he mounted it). It has one clean repair, well done, at the join where the albite is. It is otherwise complete-all-around. This ...

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A new find in Myanmar. A prismatic crystal, very well defined and of excellent color, very uniform and with slight zonations on the termination where appear, very nicely, the forms of the pinacoid and the rhombohedron. Its base is recrystallized.
Mogok, Mandalay, Myanmar.
Found in 2007
Specimen size: 2.8 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm
Fluorescent ...

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A new find in Myanmar. Group of two prismatic crystals, very well defined and of excellent color, very uniform and with slight zonations on the terminations where appear, very nicely, the forms of the pinacoid and the rhombohedron. The base is recrystallized.
Mogok, Mandalay, Myanmar.
Found in 2007
Specimen size: 2.8 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm

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Good quality mushroom tourmaline (Var. Rubellite) crystal on white quartz.

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This is one of the single best examples I have seen of the so-called "mushroom" tourmalines from late 1990s finds in Burma. Herb Obodda had this piece tucked away when I obtained his collection, and it has a great balance to it in form. It has saturated, intense magenta color, and a bit of sparkle that some of these simply lack. The rubellite ...

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Beautiful pink Rubellite in quartz. Specimen of 60 x 47 x 43mm Franco Amadori photo. Paolo Franchi collection.

Well-developed botryoids of pink rubellite partially covered by a “mushroom” growth of rubellite (upper right--actually looks more like cauliflower). Collection and photograph Norman King.

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A doubly terminated crystal of Rubellite on a 6 cm doubly terminated crystal of Quartz from the famous find at the Jonas Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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4 x 2.3 x 1.4 cm. A superb Jonas piece from 1978's famous find, with absolutely intense color and excellent gemminess. This piece is one of the finest for its size I have seen in years, and really is riveting in a case. Ex. Alain Martaud Collection.

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From one of the greatest elbaite discoveries, this Jonas Mine specimen is a rich, cranberry color, and is both transparent and lustrous.Good to great specimens from this find are getting hard to find and expensive. A "JONAS" tourmaline is one of those essentials, to which all other rubellites are compared. this was the most famous tourmaline find ...

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2.2 x 1.1 x 1.0 cm. This is a superb specimen with fiery color. It is exceptionally gemmy and lustrous, and the red is unusually intense for a small crystal.

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7 x 6 x 2 cm. This is the so-called "Cupid's Heart" crystal. nicknamed this down in Brazil many years ago. The specimen features a flat quartz crystal that superficially looks like a Japan law twin. The gem rubellite perched in the middle of the quartz is about 3 cm, and utterly transparent and gemmy. Photo by Joseph Budd.

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The crystallization is typical for this locality in Myanmar, shaped as a "mushroom" and with the particularity that shows two different shades of color, more intense near the base. At the base of the sample, and included within the Elbaite, there is a Schorl prism.
Found in 2003-2004

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A new find in Myanmar. A prismatic crystal, very well defined and of excellent color, very uniform and with slight zonations on the termination where appear, very nicely, the forms of the pinacoid and the rhombohedron. Its base is recrystallized.
Mogok, Mandalay, Myanmar.
Found in 2007
Specimen size: 3.6 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm
Fluorescent ...

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2.6 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm. A fat crystal with intense color, again darker than you normally see in a thumbnail Jonas specimen, and a vibrant internal brightness.

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7.3 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm. Red tourmaline inlepidolite Ex. Sorbonne and Eric Asselborn Collections.

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1.9 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A superb gem rubellite crystal with perfect termination.

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Tourmaline (Rubellite), Quartz on Feldspar Size : 3.5 x 2.7 x 3 cm Weight : 53 g

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Fine, complete-all-around cluster with high lustre and a touch more green/yellow than indicated, in person. One of the taller crystals in the lot, with extreme tapering beginning to occur from the tip to base. 4.3 x 2.1 x 2.0 cm.

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6.0 x 3.3 x 2.4 cm. A gorgeous, gemmy, 4-cm-long crystal of red rubellite projecting from lepidolite with doubly-terminated quartz crystal to the right.

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Superb, complete-all around crystal with great lustre, unusual transparency for the size, and just plain impressive! Minorcleavelandite accents make it! 7.1 x 3.1 x 2.3 cm

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Crystals composed of striated prism faces and terminated by a rough and poorly defined pedion face. We specially note its very deep color.
Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Specimen size: 10.9 x 3.2 x 2.9 cm
Main crystal size: 10.8 x 2.7 cm
With record from the Folch Collection

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2.0 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm. Very gemmy and transparent, a nice parallel-growth rubellite.

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A gorgeous, robust, intense red rubellite cap around a schorl stalk makes this a very fine example of this rare habit from Mogok. I traded for it at the Munich 2009 show. The color is superb for the material. A most unusual tourmaline style.

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5.2 x 1.6 x 1.0 cm. A single gem crystal, doubly-terminated, nearly flawless internally, and of rich color.

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2.8 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm. A doubly-terminated, complete gem rubellite crystal. This is a floater.

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2.2 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A doubly-terminated rubellite crystal. Very gemmy.

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Good quality mushroom tourmaline (Var. Rubellite).

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Good quality mushroom tourmaline (Var. Rubellite).

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This is the best overall tourmaline I have yet seen come from the last few years of prospecting in Madagascar, because it is on matrix and because the color is so incredible. As well, the termination is sharp and the lustre is glassy! The rich, Jonas-red cranberry color of the piece leaps out at you and is more vibrant and colorful in person than ...

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Not a particularly large Cruziero tourmaline, but as gemmy and pristine as they get. Fine termination, superb cranberry color, and top luster. Ex. Steve Smale collection 1.7 x 0.6 x 0.5cm

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A beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, watermelon-pink, pencil tourmaline crystal with an an unusual rounded termination from the famous Himalaya Mine of California. 7.68 carats. Small but absolutely flawless! 2.9 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm

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A highly unusual pristine floater mass of translucent, bubbly, deep raspberry-red tourmaline crystals from Burma. Probably the most unusual tourmaline form of all. This piece even has a small vug on one side. Front and back views are given.

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Stunning group of mushroom Tourmaline var. Rubellite. Lustrous and well crystalized. Top specimen from a 2005 find.

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Very good mushroom Tourmaline var. Rubellite.

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Rubellite crystal. Specimen size 2,5x1cm. Photo and collection Jorge M. Alves

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Very nice example of the famous mushroom-habit Tourmalines. This lovely toenail has excellent luster and form, and the deep cherry-red color is about as perfect as you could ask for. The quartz partially encases the 1.7 cm across Tourmaline, creating a nice aesthetic piece.

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6.0 x 5.4 x 4.5 cm. Gemmy and lustrous, 2.6 cm, vivid cranberry-red tourmaline crystal in very pastel-purple/light gray lepidolite crystals and bladed albite.

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5.1 x 4.2 x 3.9 cm. Cluster of gem Jonas rubellite crystals, spraying up from matrix one side. On the bottom, more robust, darker crystals can be seen. The two major crystals on the upper right side are terminated.

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Peculiar red "mushroom" rubellite growing on a feldspar, quartz and schorl base.

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A new find in Myanmar. A prismatic crystal, very well defined and of excellent color, very uniform and with slight zonations on the termination where appear, very nicely the forms of the pinacoid and the rhombohedron. Its base is recrystallized.
Mogok, Mandalay, Myanmar.
Found in 2007
Specimen size: 3.2 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm
Fluorescent short ...

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2.5 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm. A complex tourmaline with a nice accent growth on top.

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A cute pink Rubellite with a black Schorl center. JSS specimen and photograph.

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Good quality mushroom tourmaline (Var. Rubellite).

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3.7 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm. A gorgeous, gemmy, vibrantly lustrous crystal with excellent internal brightness and surface luster.

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Photo with back light in full dark. On face is nice look structure Rubellite.

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Exceptional purple triangular rubellite crystal on quartz from Burma.

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Rubellite tourmaline with feldspar

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Tourmaline mushrooms surrounding a quartz point.

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Good quality mushroom tourmaline (Var. Rubellite).

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Polycrystalline aggregates (“mushroom” shaped) of Elbaite (rubellite) with very well developed curvatures on the faces and edges that confer this curious appearance to the aggregate. The sample is very aerial, with deep color and it is on Quartz matrix, with small bits of Schorl on the back.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel, Molo, Momeik, ...

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Elbaite polycrystalline growths with a shape well known as “mushroom”, with a very deep and uniform red color and on Calcite matrix.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel, Molo, Momeik, Burma.
Found in 2003-2004
Specimen size: 4.5 × 3 × 3.6 cm = 1.8” × 1.2” × 1.4”
Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

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This is a very good example of the so-called "mushroom" tourmalines from late 1990s finds in Momeik. Herb Obodda had this piece tucked away when I obtained his collection, and it has a great balance to it in form. It has saturated, intense magenta color, and a bit of sparkle that some of these simply lack. In fact, it is one of the most colorful ...

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MUSHROOM TOURMALINE on matrix Collection of Russ BEHNKE, Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.A

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