Quartz infused with Paraiba Tourmalines from Brazil

A clear quartz from Brazil, interwoven with fine Paraiba tourmalines. The copper-bearing gemstone variety of tourmaline contrasts in turquoise-blue lines against the clear quartz background.

Paraiba tourmaline is the most expensive and gemologically valuable tourmaline variety, colored by copper traces in the borosilicate lattice. The intense turquoise-blue to greenish-blue hue is unique in the mineral spectrum, comparable only to high-quality aquamarine or indicolite.

The Paraiba deposit in the Brazilian state of Paraíba is the first discovery site of this variety, found in 1987. Today, comparable Cu-bearing tourmalines are also found in Mozambique and Nigeria, but the Brazilian material is still considered the reference quality.

A quartz with Paraiba tourmaline inclusions is a deposit sensation: two gemstone materials in one aggregate, grown crystallographically parallel.

A collector's item with gemologically high-quality gemstone inclusions.