Tourmaline is one of the most colorful minerals to be found. Some of the most common colors are:

• Chrome Tourmaline, green

• Indicolite, blue

• Rubellite, pink or red

• Schorl, black

• Verdelite, green

• Watermelon, green and red

 

However, rarer colors are:

• Achroite (actually is colorless)

• Canary, bright yellow

• Dravite, brown

• Paraiba, neon blue (rare and very expensive)

• Siberite, purple

 

Gray, Orange, and White Tourmaline can also be found. 

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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.