The man to thank for entering Paraíba into the jewelry lexicon is Heitor Dimas Barbosa, who had such a strong conviction that ...

The gem is also nicknamed "the stone of health ... Tourmaline occurs in quite a spectrum of colors, but if you can find a watermelon tourmaline—that is, a stone with a green exterior and ...

What gives gemstones colors ... known as bi-colored or watermelon tourmaline, where pink and green hues coexist due to ...

and many of their finds—like blue elbaite and rich watermelon tourmaline—have wound up on display at the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum in nearby Bethel. Mary and Gary Freeman use the headlamps on ...

If you don’t instantly associate Maine with gem and mineral mining ... partners could only call “the Big Pocket,” a cavernous room chock-full of watermelon-colored tourmaline crystals, a grotto like ...

A Colorado gem about the size of an adult’s palm could ... “The ones in Colorado are this really gorgeous, saturated, I like to call watermelon color,” said Tama Higuchi, a fine minerals ...

Image Some of the collection highlights: clockwise from top left, the largest lunar meteorite in the museum’s collection; a watermelon tourmaline slice, from the Dunton Gem Quarry in Newry ...

Chrisy Bossie built a $100,000-a-year gemstone e-commerce business by ... available in amethyst, lapis, watermelon tourmaline, turquoise.... Shop them all here,” she wrote in a recent marketing ...