Tourmaline: A Gem That Crosses The Rainbow

Tourmaline is one of the most colorful gemstones in nature, covering peach red, sky blue, brilliant yellow, bright green, flesh pink, blood red and the intermediate tones of any two colors. There is a legend in ancient Egypt that the tourmaline ore once traversed a rainbow before reaching the center of the earth, so it has various colors of the rainbow. This is also the origin of the tourmaline being called the "rainbow gem".

In fact, inlaid tourmalines as jewelry has a history of thousands of years. In the Qing Dynasty of China, tourmalines were especially popular among princes and nobles. At that time, high-ranking officials used tourmalines as the top bead for wearing flowers, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was also obsessed with it. From 1900 until the death of Empress Dowager Cixi in 1911, the tourmaline mining area in California sent several tons of tourmaline to the Qing court every year. When she died, the Empress Dowager Cixi also specifically asked the palace people to place a pink tourmaline from the Pala mine in Southern California in her palm.

Tourmaline's Mohs hardness is between 7-7.5, although it is not as good as diamonds, red, sapphire and other precious stones, such hardness is quite ideal for jewelry making. Tourmaline mines are spread all over the world, but it is actually quite rare to achieve gem-level quality.

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