The Definitive Guide to the World of Color in Tourmaline Gemstones
The Definitive Guide to the World of Color in Tourmaline Gemstones
Green Tourmaline Gemstones
Round – Less than 1 Carat
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This small standard round brilliant is as small I have cut anything. It still has a great green hue because it is a chrome tourmaline. It weighs .11 carats.
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This tourmaline represent a common opinion of tourmaline. The round standard brilliant is only moderately alive and the green color is nondescript. It weighs .76 carats
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This standard round brilliant is a chrome tourmaline. It has a great saturated green color, but too dark a tone level. It weighs .40 carats and is a dot of color.
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This richer grass green has dark factors, but it can still keep up a good flash in decent light. You can see a garden of naturals in the gem, in the photograph and I think it effects the brightness of the gem. But I don't see them flash and be disruptive by eye. It weighs .99 carats.
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Bright acid green with a yellower principle axis that floats around the standard round brilliant. It is included, but still eye candy. It weighs .93 carats.
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This smaller standard round brilliant is like a minty green mirror. It appears to be eye clean and is very refreshing. It weighs .80 carats.
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This standard round brilliant is a pale green with a touch of blue that can be washed away by the light. It appears to be eye clean and quite bright. It weighs 2.65 carats.
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This standard round brilliant has a single thin white inclusion, next to its girdle. Face up it is hard to see in the medium dark gemstone. The rest of the gemstone is fine. It weighs .86 carats an is a fine droplet of color.
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This standard round brilliant is eye clean and of medium toned sea foam green. It came from Afghanistan and weighs .67 carats. The droplets of color are ready to set sail with this mate.
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I like this gemstone. It maybe smaller, but it has everything going for it, in the bright flashy mint green world. The standard round brilliant weighs .86 carats.
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This standard round brilliant is a really clean green with a spec of blue color. It is included and they do effect the flash of the stone. Its crystal is below average, but it is still a pretty gem at .77 carats.
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A failure to grind this smaller round smaller, has lead to the inclusions being in the table. What amazes me is that the bright, light green, standard round brilliant still produces a decent looking stone by eye. It weighs .76 carats.
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This standard round brilliant is a refreshing minty green. It is slightly included and weighs .53 carats.
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This standard round brilliant is a nicer medium dark green. It is flashy. It appears to be eye clean and weighs .27 carats.
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This smaller standard round brilliant is mostly green with a bit of yellow overtone. It appears to be eye clean and and has a medium dark tone level. It weighs .46 carats.
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This smaller standard round brilliant has a significant flaw that is easily eye visible. It has a blue/green sea foam color that is a moderate tone level. It weighs .35 carats.
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This small standard round brilliant has a nice medium green color. It has good flash despite being slightly included. It weighs .21 carats.
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This standard round brilliant has an excellent green color that comes from chrome/vanadium. It is small at .15 carats, but quite bright and flashy.
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This is probably the best green tourmaline in the collection. I don't mean size wise, but in pure color. It has a medium tone, vivid, well saturated green in a chrome tourmaline stone. It appears to be eye clean and weighs, .21 carats.
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This standard round brilliant is really too small to show the sea foam look at its best. This round is also significantly include to the point where there are marks in the table. It weighs .52 carats.
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This standard round brilliant has a nice bright medium lightly toned green color. It appears to be eye clean and weighs .40 carats.
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This is a little beauty. It has a good medium toned green that is bright and flashy. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs in at .26 carats.
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This standard round brilliant weighs only .43 carats, but has a large sized flash. It is a very spicy green with hints of the secondary axis, bluer green color around the edges.
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Classic dichroic tourmaline with the grass green principle axis color dominating the standard round brilliant. You can still see the bluer secondary axis when you tilt the stone. The eye clean stone has fine crystal and weighs .94 carats.
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A bright little flash of blue shifty to green, standard round brilliant. It appears to be eye clean and its flash is bigger than the gem. I weighs ,27 carats.
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The rough for this standard round brilliant was purchased from Brazil. It has a minty green color and is moderately included. It weighs .85 carats and is a droplet of color member.
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This is a chrome tourmaline, which means that it has great green color. It is dark as usual and weighs ,20 carats.
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This dark green standard round brilliant is cut from chrome tourmaline. It has emerald green flash and weighs .16 carats.
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This standard round brilliant has dark green flashes. This diminutive, clean stone is colored by either chrome or vanadium and called chrome tourmaline. It weighs .17 carats.
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This standard round brilliant has a nice flash driven green color. It is called chrome tourmaline despite probably being colored by vanadium rather than chrome. It is a clean stone and weighs .20 carats.
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This standard round brilliant is a rich green color with moderate flash and tone levels. It appears to be eye clean and has good crystal. It weighs .57 carats.
