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Description

The listing, Natural Gems has ended.

Found these while mining for tourmaline in California, winner takes all

Thanks for looking and happy bidding

Questions & Comments

To figure out what you have it would help to know what area you were mining tourmaline in
Fine red and blue, green comes out of Riverside and San Diego co,. Pink tourmaline comes from Pala Mining dist of San Diego co. CA.,
Blue tourmaline is called Indicolite, Violet to pink is called Elbaite, Red and pink is called Rubellite, brown is called Dravite, Black called Schorl, comes in green, multicolored rarely white.
It occurs with lepidolite, microcline, spodumene, in granite pegmatites. With Andalusite & biotite in schist of regional metamorphic rocks and with siderite & quartz in hypothermal veins, with molybdenite & cassiterite in massive hydrothermal replacement deposits

Oct 16th, 2012 at 8:11:02 PM PDT by

it was from a mine about an hour drive east of San Diego...sorry dont remember the name of the mine

Oct 16th, 2012 at 9:39:13 PM PDT by

ah ok ^.^
im a bit rusty so i cant really recognize any of them

Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:33:52 PM PDT by

I know the small one on the top right is pink tourmaline and the one below that has green tourmaline running through it, the two on the top I forget the name but they look like rose pedals, the large one I know has some purple or lavender tourmaline in it, and just not sure on the others sorry

Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:54:25 PM PDT by

love it

Oct 19th, 2012 at 2:54:38 PM PDT by

Thank you

Oct 20th, 2012 at 8:24:21 AM PDT by

can you list what they are please? :)

Sep 30th, 2012 at 6:01:26 PM PDT by

I am not so good at that, if I tried I may mislead you, I was hoping the pictures would help

Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:32:22 PM PDT by

wow very nice rocks, me and my daughter collect, it would be nice to add to out collections- will be watching and saving and I fanned ya for sure !!!!!

Oct 6th, 2012 at 1:31:13 PM PDT by

thanks so much

Oct 6th, 2012 at 8:07:28 PM PDT by

beautiful auction!

Oct 3rd, 2012 at 7:30:17 PM PDT by

thank you

Oct 3rd, 2012 at 8:53:27 PM PDT by

f&w!!! :o)

Oct 2nd, 2012 at 11:46:57 AM PDT by

Oct 2nd, 2012 at 8:22:17 PM PDT by

nice listing

Oct 1st, 2012 at 6:51:48 PM PDT by

thank you

Oct 1st, 2012 at 7:02:37 PM PDT by

your welcome ^.^
good luck on all your auctions :)

Oct 1st, 2012 at 4:35:05 PM PDT by

Oct 1st, 2012 at 7:05:29 PM PDT by

yep i looked and saw :)
their nice :)
i bid on some of them ^.^

Oct 1st, 2012 at 8:56:45 AM PDT by

Thank you

Oct 1st, 2012 at 12:54:44 PM PDT by

thats good ^.^
ill be checking them out XD

Oct 1st, 2012 at 8:16:58 AM PDT by

Just listed a few more for today...

Oct 1st, 2012 at 8:47:09 AM PDT by

lol probly a good choice then
ll i have basically fits in a tackle box XD
lol well if your going to be selling lots of rocks/ gems ill probly be checking them out XD

Oct 1st, 2012 at 8:12:59 AM PDT by

yes I will be adding more, a few today and more to come

Oct 1st, 2012 at 8:14:39 AM PDT by

lol why?
i dont think i would XD
i dont have that much compared to people though XD

Oct 1st, 2012 at 8:00:29 AM PDT by

I have been collecting for many years, rocks and Pepsi stuff, so it was buy a bigger house or do a major downsize...downsize it is

Oct 1st, 2012 at 8:06:38 AM PDT by

lol im just starting to get back into collecting rocks and gems XD

Sep 30th, 2012 at 9:42:20 PM PDT by

I am trying to down size

Oct 1st, 2012 at 7:45:36 AM PDT by

thanks ^.^
you too ^.^

Sep 30th, 2012 at 9:31:56 PM PDT by

Oct 1st, 2012 at 7:45:47 AM PDT by

^.^

Sep 30th, 2012 at 9:11:14 PM PDT by

Your kinda fun

Sep 30th, 2012 at 9:24:35 PM PDT by

it did ^.^
it got me interested lol

Sep 30th, 2012 at 9:02:36 PM PDT by

:) Good

Sep 30th, 2012 at 9:06:13 PM PDT by

ok thanks ^.^
ill keep watch of this one ^.^

Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:57:08 PM PDT by

Oh good I was hoping this would help

Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:58:02 PM PDT by

Fanned and watching !

Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:44:58 PM PDT by

Thank you

Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:54:37 PM PDT by

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