Multi-colored Tourmaline Gemstones in nugget or chip shaped beads. It is a beautiful necklace with beads in hues of pink, green and black. The necklace was constructed in the endless style with no clasp. It is long enough to fit over your head. The array of colors makes the tourmaline beads ideal for wearing with most any outfit.
Tourmaline is recognized for having the widest color range of any gem and for lightly or deeply saturated hues of pink, red, yellow, brown, green, greenish blue, blue, violet, black, and multicolored. Known since antiquity in the Mediterranean region - Tourmaline was named in 1703 by Dutch traders who gave the gemstone a Sinhalese name, `Turamali` , thought to mean `stone with mixed colors`. Tourmaline is a crystal silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, potassium which produce a beautiful and vast color palete. Tourmaline is mined all over the world. tourmaline is an opaque stone with a fibrous structure and a golden/silvery sheen. Used by metaphysical healers to drain negative energies.
- Length: 35 inches long