Pink tourmaline is a very unusual gemstone. Just about everybody will have seen a range of pink gemstones in modern jewelry design, at some point. In most cases, these gems are pink tourmaline. It's fair to say that pink tourmaline is one of the most high demand gemstones on the market. This particular gemstone is universally popular with designers, offering an exceptional range of design possibilities that other gemstones simply...

The tourmaline group includes a very broad colour spectrum caused by different types of minerals and mineralisation processes. Tourmaline is particularly popular as a very versatile design gemstone. The many different colour ranges are particularly prized by jewelers as allowing a life of creative freedom for fabulous designs. The technical side of tourmaline Tourmaline is technically a "crystalline boron silicate". The colours come from combinations of other metals, like potassium,...