Tourmaline Ring Earrings Set Russian Stone Gemstone Mineral

Description TOURMALINE RING AND EARRINGS This is the set of multicolor tourmaline ring and earrings with silver plated. American ring size 8. Dimensions: 0.7 x 0.6 x 0.2″; 0.7 x 0.6 x 0.2″ (1.8 x 1.5 x 0.5cm; 1.8 x 1.4 x 0.4cm). Total weight – 0.4oz (12 grams). Origin: Russia, Transbaikalia. Some information about tourmaline: In 1703, Dutch sailors first brought into Europe elongated crystals of purple-pink color. Following the inhabitants of Ceylon, they called these rocks «turemali» that are meaning is mineral, jewel. Thus arose the modern term tourmaline, which called a variety of silicate, which includes compounds of aluminum, boron, manganese and magnesium. Tourmaline stone features a large variety of colors. Ruby-red stones called rubellite, purple-red stones found in the Urals – siberite. Verdelite is green tourmaline, indigolite – blue. Yellowish-brown stones on the deposit Drava in Austria called dravite. Rare colorless crystals called ahroite. A very common black variety of tourmaline calls schorl (More information about tourmaline). Here you will find other tourmaline jewelry sets >>>