Tourmaline is a well-known gem species second only to precious gems, and is the most valuable of all common semi-precious stones. It is a kind of tourmaline with quite complex composition. It will generate static electricity after being heated or rubbed, and it can adsorb small objects. This is the reason why tourmaline always has the most dust on the surface of all kinds of jewellery under the spotlight on the counter. In the folks, tourmaline is also called a “wish stone”, which is said to help the owner fulfill his wishes and improve interpersonal relationships.
Tourmaline was once quite popular in my country during the Qing Dynasty. Empress Dowager Cixi loved tourmaline and even bought nearly a ton of tourmaline.
Some people have heard of or bought tourmaline, and think tourmaline is a kind of crystal, but in fact they are two completely different gems. The value of tourmaline is much higher than that of crystal, and it has appreciated rapidly in the international market in recent years. The prices of individual color varieties are even closer to high-end gems. I believe that with the accumulation of people’s knowledge of gemstones, tourmalines will gradually become a popular object.
The color of tourmaline is unusually rich, probably the one with the most color changes among all gemstones, so it has the nickname of “Very Amorous”. In addition to a variety of single colors, tourmalines often appear bi-color or even multi-color, and the most special one is the tourmaline that appears both red and green.
Among the many colors of tourmaline, red has always been the color that everyone loves, especially the pure red like ruby. This ruby-colored tourmaline has a special word in English called rubylite, ruby is ruby, and rubylite Refers to those tourmalines that have a ruby-like red color. อย่างไรก็ตาม, rubylite often has poor clarity and has many flaws or even cracks. Even so, in business, the price of rubylite is much higher than that of red tourmalines with better clarity but with an incorrect hue. ในปัจจุบัน, its international selling price is equivalent to that of watermelon tourmalines with good clarity.
อย่างไรก็ตาม, rubylite is not the most precious of all tourmaline color varieties. The most precious is the now famous Paraiba tourmaline. This is a kind of tourmaline produced in Minradabasaiha, Paraíba, บราซิล. It is only 20 years old since its discovery. The miners didn’t know exactly what they were looking for at first, but with firm belief, they were convinced that there must be totally unique gems buried in the hills of Paraiba. After nine years of unremitting efforts, a beautiful tourmaline crystal that has never been seen before was brought out from the dark mine tunnel. It is blue like a swimming pool, and it is unusually bright, even a small one can shine brightly.
Paraiba tourmaline has conquered countless knowledgeable gem lovers with its unique beauty, and it became famous in a short time and became the new favorite of people competing for collection. The price of top Paraiba tourmalines in the international market can be as high as tens of thousands of dollars per carat. This price is much higher than many precious gems.
อย่างไรก็ตาม, it is precisely because the color of tourmaline is very rich, some friends in the market as long as they see colorful bracelets, think it is a tourmaline, they are very wrong, there are many colorful things, the price difference is also very big.