A crystal section of fluor-elbaite tourmaline displaying a mix of greens and pink. This specimen comes from one of the only places in Canada to produce such crystals, the Leduc Mine of Quebec, Canada, forming within a lithium-enriched granitic pegmatite. The specimens are very hard to break out of the quartz host-matrix and so they generally don't have terminations and often come out in split sections. Perhaps this is for the best as the exterior coating of the crystal is a very dark green, almost black, by having the crystals split like this it allows us to see the colourful and glassy interior of the precious stone. Good size, displays well!
