Tourmaline jewelry: the 100 colours gem

Do you know the color of tourmaline? Tourmaline is a very particular gem because it is present in nature in more than a hundred shades of different colors, sometimes even polychrome. In fact, its name derives from the Sinhalese “turmali” which means stone of mixed colors. Over the years it has also been called “the…

Paraiba tourmaline: the turquoise gem

Have you ever heard of Paraiba Tourmaline? Do you know the Paraiba Tourmaline colour? Paraiba Tourmaline was first discovered in 1989 by Heitor Dimas Barbosa. For seven years he had been tunneling under a mountain in the São José de Batalha area, in the homonymous state of Paraiba. Eventually he came across a crystal that…