The listing, Beautiful tourmaline and .925 sterling silver ring has ended.
Tourmaline enchanted the Empress Dowager Tz u Hsi, the last Empress of China, so much that with her great wealth she purchased almost a ton of it from San Diego, California's pregmatite district. This is one of Octobers birthstones. It has a hardness of 7 to 7.5 and is found in places like, Brazil, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Zambia and USA.