Impressive quartz filled with Paraiba tourmalines

A quartz crystal from Brazil with included Paraiba tourmalines. The blue-green tourmaline needles lie in the clear quartz like frozen lines.

Paraiba tourmaline is a rare variety of tourmaline, whose intense color is created by copper substitutions in the boron-silicate lattice. The deposit was discovered in Paraiba in 1989. Today, the material is considered the most gemologically valuable tourmaline classification.

The constellation of quartz matrix and included Paraiba needles documents a pegmatitic formation with copper-bearing solutions. Such multi-component pieces are a premium classification in the collector's market.

Brazilian pegmatites from Paraiba and neighboring deposits supply this rare material. The material value per volume is disproportionately high due to the Paraiba content.

A Brazilian collector's piece with documented Paraiba tourmaline classification and a composition that remains mineralogically and gemologically legible.