Agate Beads
Agate is a variety of translucent Chalcedony ranging in many colors due to mineral inclusions.
Latest update: 2024 December 6
Chromium 'Green' Tourmaline
Tourmaline is one of the most colorful minerals to be found. Some of the most common colors are:
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Chrome Tourmaline, green
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Indicolite, blue
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Rubellite, pink or red
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Schorl, black
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Verdelite, green
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Watermelon, green and red
However, rarer colors are:
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Achroite (actually is colorless)
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Canary, bright yellow
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Dravite, brown
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Paraiba, neon blue (rare and very expensive)
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Siberite, purple
Gray, Orange, and White Tourmaline can also be found.
Tourmaline can be heat treated to enhance it's color. A heated lighter green can be made into a deep green, light brown can be heated to red, dark brown (Dravite) can turn lighter in color and pink can be made colorless.