Cotton Candy Pink Tourmaline from the Rubaya Mine in eastern Congo

1.665 grams / 8.325 carats / 14.5 x 11 x 6.4 mm / clean

When this iconic deposit was running hot and heavy we were moving quite a bit of this material. Because we loath selling rough online that requires an explanation, we would sort out the pieces that were not perfectly clean.  We finally sent a parcel off to the folks who trim our rough and have received back some nice pieces. Many of these are basically preformed. This deposit is not producing anything these days and the local prices have gone silly for the few pieces that are found