Unboxing Tourmaline: Gemologist vs. Geologist

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Today's all about tourmaline! Explore the geology & gemology behind this amazing rainbow gemstone. Join Rebecca & Brittany as they check out watermelon, schorl, indicolite, rubellite, and so many more tourmaline specimens! Get science facts from 2 perspectives! Learn how these complex minerals form and which variety is among the most valuable stones in the world!
00:45 - Top Tourmaline facts
02:20 - How Tourmaline Forms
05:10 - Giant Tourmaline Slice
07:03 - Varieties & Colors of Tourmaline: blue tourmaline, red tourmaline, more!
11:39 - Cut of Tourmaline
12:41 - Cat's Eye Tourmaline
13:40 - Tourmaline's Electric Properties
14:40 - American Tourmaline
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@gems Год назад

We tried to bring out a wide array of cool tourmaline specimens for our newest Gemologist v Geologist video. What did you like best? What stone would you like us to feature next in this series?

@katarzynaflorczak990 Год назад

it's hard to choose the prettiest one. I did not know that there are 32 types: D. A pendant with cut thirmaline would be gorgeous. I would like you to do an episode with Opal. The most beautiful stone in the world: D

@-.Tristan.- Год назад

I think that it would be super awesome if you could do a video all about Kentucky Agate, with it’s popularity even with people uninterested in collecting, I believe it could do really well on the channel! Also with it being such a largely popular agate variety, it would be really awesome to hear all about different elements that make up the stunning colors as well as inclusions and formations! Plus it’s practically in our back yard!

@aliciaseecharan Год назад

That tourmaline slice is simply gorgeous. Nature is amazing. Great video 🙂🌷

@LostWithoutHer Год назад

My favs in this clip in order are the Paraiba, the Rubellite, and the yellow. I'm curious as to if yellow could be treated to pink or vice versa by heat or irradiation as the coloring agent is different oxidative states of the same element. Are all light blues considered "Paraiba"? Keep up the good work! #youhadmeatTourmaline.

@travish1853 Год назад

Tanzanite! If y'all haven't done that yet

@stephenscordato4321 Год назад

You could spend your entire life collecting tourmaline and still see something new every few years or so... such an amazing stone! My favorite have got to be from Minas Gerias. Such a wide variety available from that region and so beautiful!

@naveedhussain4987 Год назад

Hello i want you to see my discovery plz if you are an expert.

@bethlovesthings Год назад

I just love love LOVE watermelon tourmaline. You guys should do an episode on "fruity" themed gems. 🍉 Great video as always. 💖

@shrimpandsilver5010 Год назад

Lol

@brianhudson7822 Год назад

OK, so each time I watch one of your vlogs I think that you guy's can't outdo yourselves. Well, this video is so far in the lead. I kind of choked up a bit when you guys showed the Liddicoatite. I was going through the GG program on campus when my instructor came in and said, "HE is here!". Indeed, Mr. Liddicoat was on campus that day. I CAN'T describe or tell how kind, warm, and approachable he was and how generous this ROCKSTAR of the gemological world was with his time. Thank you again for another amazing video that gemologists and enthusiasts can enjoy. You guys rock!

@FlamedAce Год назад

As a geologist and mineral collector i loved how you explained the properties of turmalines, its compositions, its forming process. Not so much of a fan to gems because to us geologists we love the raw materials.

@SharpAssKnittingNeedles Год назад

Loved this video! But let's be honest, this was pretty much geologist vs geologist, cuz Rebecca obviously understands the science! Also love tourmaline, one of my fave pieces is a tourmalinated quartz crystal 🥰

@angelaabbott4542 Год назад

Maine tourmaline ❤️ Mt Mica, Oxford, and Androscoggin Counties have an incredible mining history. Many areas are still producing beautiful specimens and gemstone quality pieces. I found a 64 k green tourmaline at Mt.Mica.

@LostWithoutHer Год назад

I'm absolutely obsessed with Tourmaline. I had a pineapple-size block of white quartz with multiple rods of bluish green, dark blue and one bi-color crystal running through it and when my place was broken into, it was stolen. I've never found anything remotely similar below a high 4 digit price tag and insurance limits were quickly exhausted replacing other items.

@gems Год назад

Wow, that's rough!

@mendyviola Год назад

I LOVE this series. I value my jewelry as a woman, but as an engineer I’m fascinated by areas of science that aren’t my specialty.

@kellyharper367 2 месяца назад

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Rocks make me so happy! Thank you for showcasing their beauty!

@baileywright1656 Год назад

I absolutely love that faceted green one you showed near the beginning! The way the light scatters in rays is so cool. I need to get me some tourmaline now!

@ArmandCury Год назад

That another fascinating "Gemologist versus Geologist" overcame all the expectations! REAL GREAT work, girls! You are amazing professionals. The details about the gemstones, the explanation about the "causes of colors" (the chemical coloring agents present in the gemstones) are amazing and really great scientifical information Thanks Gemstones and staff!

@maxevocal Год назад

The kitchen-sink-cookie is such a great metaphor 😂

@kevinobrien7731 Год назад

Pink Tourmaline. Wish you could have a look at my vintage PT ring, women's -- rather showy -- and I never take it off and everyone gasps when they see it! I am an artist and all colors or absence of them are my favorites in gems, minerals, and everything else. Through your channel, I have learned to love even more than I thought I did! I think seeing the many varieties of one gem, mineral, or anything under the umbrella, is wonderful and hope to see more of such things..and have here. Thanks, as always!

@rogerhargreaves2272 Год назад

Such a fascinating mineral, I really didn’t know there were so many beautiful colours. My favourite one was the Schorl specimen that Britney chose. Another great share, thank you. 💙👍

@naveedhussain4987 Год назад

I want you to see my discovery. Need help to identify the Tourmaline i discovered.

@SiX1SE7EN Год назад

Great episode! Tourmaline is always a hit. Beautifully done. I love these longer episodes btw! I can never get enough 😄

@largent45 Год назад

Wow! Those tourmaline specimens are exquisite! Watermelon tourmaline is one of my favorites! ive not seen cats eye tourmaline before. All, very cool! Thanks for the information!

@karengarcia8587 Год назад

It's amazing to see all of these tourmaline gemstones.😃💎 I find it very fascinating to know the facts about them like how they get their layers of colors🌈💎, where they're form and to see many kind of them.😯 My favorites are the cotton candy one, the electric light blue🔵 one from Brazil🇧🇷 and the cat's eye one. Both of you thanks for teaching us about them.👩‍🏫 Nice video.🙂👍💖💚💎

@VladTepes_esti.un.bizonpu Год назад

after a bad day learning about tourmaline is the thing that gets me smiling

@jbbb7418 Год назад

I believe the first time i saw Paraiba tourmaline was 1991 at Tiffanys. It was a stunning electric stop light green, mesmerizing, and it is my favorite followed very closely by Rubellite. I am currently looking for a replacement Rubellite for my ring, the original stone broke and took with it my heart. Great video, thanks ladies.

@noraramos3798 10 месяцев назад

These are all gorgeous!!! As a crystal and mineral enthusiast and collector, I do have many pieces of tourmaline. I love tourmaline of all colors! These were some fabulous specimens, but if I had to pick a favorite, the indicolite in quartz was very cool! But truly, they’re all so beautiful I would prefer to keep them all rather than having to choose just one:)

@JohnJacobJingleHeimerSchmidt1 Год назад

I love this duo and this video concept! Keep ‘em coming

@patrickkillilea5225 Год назад

To pick a favorite Tourmaline, it would have to be the Blue Cap Tourmalines, from So California's Tourmaline Queen Mine in Pala, Ca. They have been amazing, and I live in the area, so that makes it all more interesting to me.

@NiHaoXiangcao Год назад

Tourmaline is so gorgeous its one of my favourites to look at and im glad to see you guys showcasing it.☺ The colour zoning is so fascinating!!!💖 Thank you for shoeing and informing us!!!💝

@cassandralyris4918 Год назад

Holy smokes, the specimen at 5:11 !! *WOWZA* 😍

@streetjunki5731 Год назад

Y’all keep saying so many big and wild words that I don’t understand yet this was still cool to watch! Very interesting:)

@gems Год назад

Let us know if you have any questions!

@hybridgoth 3 месяца назад

It's so hard to pick a favourite, I find myself torn between; Liddicoatite for the wonderful colours and zoning. Uvite for their atypical growth habits, in particular the flattened bipyramidal forms. Foitite for their unusual terminations.

@colleenlinke4208 Год назад

Indicolite Tourmaline is my favorite!!!!

@SnyperMac1 Год назад

The indicolite is like a perfect colour match for windex, love that

@bonblue4993 Год назад

Thanks or this video - lots of good info about Tourmalines. I mined for Tourmalines and other gems in Maine for 14 years in the 80's.

@topcatcoast2coast579 Год назад

Comment 809. Just missed 808, 909 is best tho. One of my favorite channels with some of the most enthusiastic people. 👍👍. That Paribas makes me think of the rediscovered beryl mines in Columbia.

@wizard44 Год назад

One of my favorites as well. I have a dark green tourmaline that actually has red sparkles in it somehow. Never seen anything like it.

@geodex9 Год назад

Dravite is my favorite variety of Tourmaline! I would freak if I were able to get my hands on a specimen that large.

@ashlinglynam1985 Год назад

I really enjoyed this video, Tourmaline is my all time favourite stone, I have a few small pieces of watermelon, black and pink tourmaline, they amaze me every time I look at them! Thanks for the incredible knowledge as always 💗

@chasecarlson4900 Год назад

EASY top 10 in my all time favorite minerals & gems! It’s tricky to pick a definite favorite, but seeing as variety is a shared trait in my top 5 it’s certainly up there! Rubellite or paraiba being my two favorite varieties(paraiba being one of the major ones I’m still trying to acquire😂 maybe someday, hopefully😂) my favorite piece I own is an indicolite crystal with 3 different shades with a teal lower end, an aqua blue middle and an inky blue cap💎

@elisabethe8055 Год назад

Amazing! Such a beautiful mineral, i love it! Also love the way you guys talk us through what we see, i learn allot! Thank you! :)

@SBK6464 Год назад

Tourmaline is literally the love of my life I will never get enough of it.

@naveedhussain4987 Год назад

Can you Help me identify a sample plz.

@mistressofstones Год назад

I love tourmaline too, especially in a pegmatite of lepidolite!

@disideratum Год назад

In the metaphysical community black tourmaline is one of the most protective stones. It allegedly blocks negative energy and negative entities. People will frequently wear it or use pieces to grid their homes ie put stones in all the major corners to energetically build a fence to guard against spiritual nasties. Also 108 beads are used to make Buddhist malas (like a rosary but used to count recitations of mantra). It doesn't look that great faceted or cabbed but strings of beads look very elegant and it can be used as spiritual protection!

@Jane-ev5fx Год назад

I LOVE THESE GEMOLOGIST VS GEOLOGIST VIDEOS!!!

@jordyn87 Год назад

Wow! These tourmaline specimens are unreal!! 😍😍

@call_me_mrhate165 Год назад

I'm obsessed with tourmaline

@MissElite07 Год назад

Black tourmaline had to be one of my favorites🖤🖤

@antiloke242 Год назад

finally another gemologist vs geologist!! i've been waiting so long!!!

@foreverowlcity22 Год назад

I truly Love Tourmaline, I have a nice collection, and will try and always keep finding new, Tourmaline pieces 🎶⭐..

@ali_b_lush2 Год назад

I have an oval bi-color tourmaline that is pink and greyish brown. I bought it at a gem show then had it set into a rose gold setting with pink sapphires on either side. I got the setting from JTV online. It's one of my favorite rings! I love bi-color stones. 💖💖💖

@Samxmael Год назад

Hi from Maine! Here in Maine we’ve actually got a Maine specific variety of tourmaline which is referred to as “Maine Tourmaline”; the name usually refers to any crystalline with a Deep-greenish blue (which can come in Watermelon tourmaline variety) it is extremely expensive also.

@emeraldgemexchangedumbosho7012 Год назад

Another cute video. She's super smart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you people.

@lisacrandall409 Год назад

Fascinating episode, jam packed with interesting info about tourmaline! 💗

@greendeane1 Год назад

Common in my native state of Maine. I used to collect small examples of tourmaline and garnets in a WWII mica mine.

@NataliaJuliaNowak Год назад

Black tourmalines are wonderful! 🖤

@ricky7111 Год назад

When you think you know alot about tourmaline and then learn something new! I have a specimen that is a bluish tourmaline growing in rainbow moonstone. It's super gorgeous. And I lucked out because it was in a store sold and priced just as rainbow moonstone

@mistressofstones Год назад

That sounds amazing!!

@ajhb17 Год назад

I just found this channel and I've been watching your stuff all weekend I love it 😍

@jageun7488 Год назад

i love the Gemologist vs. Geologist videos!!!!!!

@arnddumont1456 Год назад

My favorite mineral, I love all the many shapes & colors of tourmaline! A fascinating mineral. Black tourmaline is not really black, it has such a density of colors that it appears black. If you cut it into thin slices, it shows that it is very colorful...😉

@puggirl415 Год назад

Indicolite is my fav.

@MikeG-js1jt 11 месяцев назад

Brittany is the most LAID BACK geologist and possibly human on earth.... nicknamed "Soma" a smile like the "CAT that ATE the HOUSE"

@tsr4822 Год назад

Been collecting them for many years my favorite gym by far

@VampcatVvvvV Год назад

I love tourmaline and other multi color gemstones. But I've never seen the gorgeous pastel one before. Cotton candy is a perfect moniker. I live in California and hope to get to the tourmaline mines.

@carolyn888 Год назад

The cotton candy tourmaline is one of my favorites as well as the indicolite 💙

@zenflow4life Год назад

My favorite piece was definitely the one with the huge triangle interior. 💚

@rodrigomassot2518 Год назад

My favorite is the fuchsia pink /rubellite tourmaline.

@ShaunaMarieSings Год назад

WOW!!! I learned a lot from you gals...I even own a tiny sparkling gem of 'cotton candy' tourmaline...didn't know it went by that name...now I do...thank you!!! 💗💗💗

@deborahannehart6788 Год назад

Do Larimar!!!

@-.Tristan.- Год назад

I know Rebecca has been waiting for this video 😂

@2011blueman Месяц назад

Whomever marketed Paraiba did an amazing job because it's just blue tourmaline and yet they somehow get a premium over other blue tourmaline.

@michelemurphy3541 Год назад

So cool. I love these videos so much. Thank you so much!! I share your utube often!

@incensedleaves2548 Год назад

Eyy Maine State gemstone represented!

@binkeifnjakovich1891 Год назад

Really nice and informing. I enjoyed your video very much and learnt a lot.

@aleta5873 Год назад

Love it all !!

@geraldgalbo9144 Год назад

Stunning 😊

@Jessica-ws4fi Год назад

Thank you so much!!! 💎💜

@sandmaker Год назад

They all win!

@spadesa.ramirez9206 Год назад

GODS I LOVE TOURMALINE!!!! My favorite mineral of ALL time is black tourmaline AKA schorl

@jbtechcon7434 Год назад

For a "versus" episode, it featured remarkably little combat.

@ScienceofGod Год назад

I have Chrome tourmaline... Colour changing...

@newelement307 Год назад

The geologist is lovely

@victorreis8110 Год назад

this is my favorite video. ever.

@Buddyyz Год назад

Can you do a video about orange colored gemstones ?

@breakeverychain7 8 месяцев назад

Watermelon is nuts

@americanrebel413 Год назад

Very cool thank you.

@ResortDog Год назад

As a mineral collector/cutter I want to know what they treated those crystals with before slicing them, reconstructing them or afterwards in polishing if they used a wire saw for the cracks. As in any and all treatments need disclosed to others later.

@saif-yg5ig Год назад

These are amazing. Can someone explain why iron gives green color?. As far as I know iron usually gives shades of red to pink. Why did it cause green coloration in this tourmaline?

@elizabethrios7759 Год назад

I'm sadly missing tourmaline from my collection. But I will get some. Soon .

@user-dv6ji2dh2o Год назад

So the stones are just very beautiful you have a nice investment and work and a very good profit in the whole United States well done to you really happy to see it

@philodendron6 Год назад

Astounding.

@DutchCreekRanch1 Год назад

Lovely!

@Lord_Magikarp Год назад

Schorl looks like some alien-tech stone

@sebastian122 Год назад

Awesome episode. My favorite trash can. =D

@X__jbunny__x Год назад

Thank you!!!

@ellariel7457 Год назад

You had my heart at liddicoatite 💕🔽

@Zahri8Alang Год назад

Whoa, didn't know they could become magnetized

@johnmorgan1483 Год назад

How about morganite diamond, the morganite diamond was found in the lava tube at Mount St Helens volcano Washington State warranty Someone named Morgan sent some people to Mount Saint Helen years ago, and told them to go down to lava vent to see what kind of gemstones get out of there

@ineffable_potentiality_01 Год назад

Those two girls are so smart

@markgarin6355 Год назад

Yeah, but the z axis can also produce different colors. I have a facetted green tourmaline where if you look down the end...it's mint green Afganistan?

@Pollenoverponds Год назад

Bechdel test ✔️

@muhammadsaleh290 Год назад

Can you do an advise awareness about gemstone pricing, thanks 🙏🏻

@Nicolas111 Год назад

🤩🤩🤩🤩 blue tourmaliiiine

@tonyhathuc Год назад

You have really great music!

@gems Год назад

Thanks!

@de_matos41 Год назад

The composition of the Paraiba tourmaline found in Nigeria or Mozambique is exactly the same as those from Brazil. calling them Like Paraiba turmaline is just a way of devaluating the same stones from other places. That is quite F up no Cap!