Elbaite Tourmaline - Cruzeiro Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil More info: https://www.irocks.com/minerals/specimen/51476 Here is an intensely colorful and gemmy to translucent Rubellite crystal from the famous Cruzeiro Mine. It is the classic color known since the 1970s, and we presume it came out in that era, but it could have been earlier. This classic Cruzeiro Tourmaline is a cranberry pink through much of its length with a darker pink cap. It measures one and a half inches in l

Beryl var. Aquamarine - Sawtooth Range, Idaho, USA More info: https://www.irocks.com/minerals/specimen/51508 Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho produced some of the finest aquamarines ever found in the USA, gram for gram, but crystals of this caliber were generally from the late 1970s and early 1980s, long ago and far from the market these days. Although we cannot say for sure this came from the legendary collector Geary Murdock, as did several others in this update and this collection, it IS similar t