Engagement Rings with Tourmalines

I have noticed that there has been a continuing interest to date with emeralds for engagement rings. Emeralds are a beautiful rich green coloured precious gemstones, due to their natural beauty are still a popular choice in jewellery to date. Emeralds aren’t the most hard wearing out of the array of gemstones available so may not be the best choice for an engagement ring that may been worn every day, as they are as brittle as your fingernail so I wanted to share with you all a perfect alternative namely tourmaline. So I would highly recommend a toumaline engagement ring.

Tourmalines are a perfect choice for any piece of jewellery you are considering to have designed and made due to the varying qualities they display, as well as the gorgeous rich greens, greens blues they also are sourced in yellows and some deep rich plumy pinks to. When looking into these precious gemstones the deeper colour is always seen along the main access of the stones. The more turquoise the stone the more expensive it will be. Turquoise green tourmalines are often called indicolite but these are very rare and do come with a higher pricing. The name Tourmaline was originally derived fir the Singhalese expression “tura mali” which translates into “stone of mixed colours”

There are varying names for tourmalines which relate to the difference is colours, for example:

Rubellite tourmaline.this particular name of tourmaline is latin for red. These different colours have the same crystal structure as the well know green colour but display a more pinky plum colour. This particular named tourmaline rubellite similarly to other gemstones are the higher price within this family of stones. Rubellite are found which their crystals are striated with triangular cross section, these sometime occur with a fibourous commonly when cut into a cabochon know to us as a cat’s eye. These beautiful pinky/red tourmalines are commonly found in countries such as which include Madagascar, USA, Brazil, Burma, and east Africa.

Dark brown tourmalines known as a Dravite tourmaline.

These dark brown tourmalines are found from many gem gravels commonly in sri lanka, these stones are often treated to increase the intensity and brighten up the natural colour of the gemstone.

Watermelon Tourmaline.

These tourmalines have a pink centre and a green rim, this I named the tourmaline because of their similar colouring to the pink flesh and green rind of a watermelon, alongside water melon tourmalines other tourmalines can display individual crystals up to 15 shades of different colours. Water melon tourmalines are found/mined in South Africa, East Africa, and Brazil.

Dark Blue tourmalines know as the Indicolite tourmaline.

Dark blue tourmalines are often shown in a more turquoise in colour which are heat treated to brighten up the colour bringing them to a more turquoise in colour, these particular stones are a lot more are than the other and will mainly be sourced from Siberia where its mined in clay forms from weather granites. As well as Siberia this unusual gemstone has als been founded in like Brazil, Madagascar and the USA.

I hope this has given you a insight of some wonderful alternatives of gemstones out there, do have a good look on our website as there are many more natural beauties available.