Rubellite & Indicolite

Rubellite is the pink to purplish-red variety of tourmaline, coloured by manganese. The finest rubellites, historically sourced from the Ouro Fino mine in Brazil, display a pure cherry red that can approach the appearance of ruby. Indicolite is the blue to greenish-blue variety, coloured by iron. Both are strongly pleochroic, which means lapidaries must orient the rough carefully to present the best colour through the table facet.

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