Purple Tourmaline from Zambia
Description
Purple is a rare color of elbaite tourmaline, so some of this rare material from Zambia was geochemically analyzed to find the chromophoric agents.
Information
Authors
Brendan M. Laurs; Alexander U. Falster; William B. "Skip" Simmons
Date
September 1, 2020
Source
The Journal of Gemmology
Source (Long)
The Journal of Gemmology 37(3):252-253