Purple Tourmaline from Zambia
Purple is a rare color of elbaite tourmaline, so some of this rare material from Zambia was geochemically analyzed to find the chromophoric agents.
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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