GEM ESSENCE of Paraiba Tourmaline - Rarer than Diamonds!
This GEM ESSENCE is made with a sea-green electric paraiba tourmaline. It is symbolically associated with the energies of Mercury (study, business & education), Venus (healing & relations), Uranus (electric, inventiveness, innovations) & Neptune (sea, ocean, imagination, dreams). The exact specimen shown in the picture is used to make the gem essence. REQUEST FOR A COMPLIMENTARY GIFT A 10ml BOTTLE OF PARAIBA TOURMALINE GEM ESSENCE IN THE BARTER EXCHANGE
Paraiba Tourmaline - sea-green color with brilliant electric hue (with the obvious copper bearing, for paraiba tourmalines) - Brazil, Paraiba mine. untreated, natural, lots of 'fire' lustre in the gem, oval cut, v v s 1 , 0.39ct - 0.41 ct, very high quality Untreated & Unheated gemstone.
Paraiba Tourmaline - sea-green color with brilliant electric hue (with the obvious copper bearing, for paraiba tourmalines) - Brazil, Paraiba mine. untreated, natural, lots of 'fire' lustre in the gem, oval cut, v v s 1 , 0.39ct - 0.41 ct, very high quality Untreated & Unheated gemstone.
Experts define a gem as “an object of personal adornment or decoration that is rare, beautiful, and durable.” Valuable was not mentioned, but VALUE is a direct consequence of rarity, beauty, and durability. Nothing, not diamond, not ruby, not emerald, corresponds to this description more clearly than PARAIBA tourmaline. PARAIBA truly defines a “gem.”A single deposit near the small remote village of Sao Jose’ da Batalha in the State of Paraiba in Northeastern Brazil, produces the total World’s supply of the extremely rare and beautiful PARAIBA. In the past three year, the World’s diamond production is reported to have been about 465,000,000 carats; during the same three-year period PARAIBA production was less than 10,000 carats.
PARAIBA is truly one of the RAREST of gem! The colorful beauty of PARAIBA is unsurpassed; its supernatural electric glow is only amplified by cutting.
The glowing exotic color of PARAIBA captures the unforgettable color of the Caribbean Sea on a bright sunny afternoon. Wearing PARAIBA jewelry is like having the wonder of the Caribbean Islands with you forever. PARAIBA the unchallenged Beauty Queen of Gems!PARAIBA first appeared on the market in early 1989 at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, creating a tremendous stir because of its unheard of asking price of as much as $900 per carat wholesale for 1- to 3-carat stones. By the end of the Show PARAIBA was selling for as much as $2,000 per carat. These same stones today can sell for as much as $10,000 per carat. The prices just continue to grow, but it is VALUE that you are purchasing when buying PARAIBA! PARAIBA JEWELRY in 18-karat white gold is a choice of distinction! The supernatural electric glow of PARAIBA in well designed and artfully created rings, pendants, and necklaces are available from Paraiba.com. If the pieces shown are not to your taste, contact Paraiba.com about a something designed to your personal specifications.
Paraiba Tourmaline
These cupriferous tourmalines from the Mina da Batalha in the Federal Brazilian State of Paraiba are small, rare and precious. Their spirited turquoise to green colours are such as are not found in any other gemstone in the world. The exclusiveness of this legendary find makes these rare gemstones real treasures.
Paraiba – the word has a particular fascination for the connoisseur, for it is the name of a gemstone with blue to green tones of extraordinary vividness. It was not discovered until very recently, that is to say in the 1980s. The world has one man and his unshakable belief to thank for the discovery of this unique gemstone: Heitor Dimas Barbosa. Tirelessly, he and his assistants spent years digging in the pegmatite galleries of some modest hills in the Federal Brazilian State of Paraiba.
Heitor Dimas Barbosa was more than just someone looking for gemstones: and apart from that he wasn't even looking for anything the existence of which had already been proved. The man was absolutely convinced that somewhere beneath the 'Paraiba hill' - famous today - he was going to find something 'completely different'. And right he was. In 1981 he began with the first preparations for excavations at an old, dilapidated opencast mine. He had one deep hole after another drilled in the hard ground - without success. But suddenly, five and a half years after the cut of the first spade, the first signs of a tourmaline find manifested themselves in the tangle of galleries, shafts and tunnels. Finally, in the autumn of 1989, a handful of the finest tourmaline crystals were brought up into the daylight from one of the many galleries - in colours of which people had so far only been able to dream. Unfortunately, just at that time, of all times, the 'father of the Paraiba tourmalines' was busy getting over an illness and was not able to be present at the mine. Indeed the raw crystals were sold without his having seen them! When word of the find had got around, there was a period of frantic activity at the mine. For a further five years, the now-famous hill, only 400 metres long, 200 metres wide and 65 metres high, was combed, and even razed to the ground in places. But it was all for nothing. There is now hardly any expectation that further finds will be made.
Brazil is the classical country of tourmalines. Members of this splendid gemstone group come in practically all the colours of the rainbow. For a long time, however, a radiant turquoise was lacking - that is, until the discovery of that precious deposit in Paraiba.
Normally, iron, manganese, chrome and vanadium are the elements responsible for the beautiful colouring in tourmalines. The Paraiba tourmaline is different: it owes its splendid colour to copper, an element which has never before been observed in a tourmaline. Indeed quite a fair proportion of its weight consists of copper. But scientists have discovered that it often also contains manganese.
In the Paraiba tourmaline, the interplay between these two elements gives rise to a variety of fascinatingly beautiful colours: emerald green, turquoise to sky blue, sapphire blue, indigo, bluish-violet, and purple.
Certain proportions in the mixture of copper and manganese can also result in pale grey to violet-blue tones. Copper in high concentrations is responsible for the highly coveted radiant blue, turquoise and green hues, while violet and red tones are caused by manganese. By means of the burning technique, experienced cutters can eliminate the red colour components, with the result that only a pure copper colour remains.
However, the extraordinary vividness of the Paraiba tourmalines does not reveal itself until the stone has been cut. Faceted, they scintillate a really unusual 'fire' and appear to glow intensely even when there is very little light. That is why their colour is often referred to as 'electric' or 'neon'. The aura of these treasures of Nature is both fresh and spirited at the same time. The 'swimming-pool-blue' of a Paraiba tourmaline positively flashes with vivacity, and you don't have to be an expert to see it.
Paraiba tourmalines are almost always quite small, since the beautiful cupriferous tourmaline crystals from the 'noble hill' in Paraiba were almost all fragments when they were discovered. Larger raw stones with a weight of over 5 grammes which had not cracked were rare, and only very few crystals had a weight exceeding 20 grammes. For that reason you are very unlikely to find a large Paraiba tourmaline at a jeweller's or gemstone merchant's - quite apart from the fact that few specialist merchants actually offer this highly esteemed gemstone rarity at all.
The gemstone world was captivated from the very beginning by the beauty and spirited colours of the Paraiba tourmalines. In no time at all they achieved great popularity, and today they are among the most sought-after and most expensive gemstones in the world. Prices continue to climb, and have already reached a level which, earlier on, would not have seemed realistic for a tourmaline. Five-figure prices per carat are by no means exceptional for fine, large specimens from Paraiba. Within a very short time, the market positively soaked up the modest supply of raw stones, which is thoroughly understandable, since Nature had created a gemstone which was peerless in terms of its colour and luminosity. And without Heitor Dimas Barbosa's vision of finding something 'completely different', we would probably never even have known about it.
Paraiba: Color
Neon. Fluorescent. Electric. Peacock. All are adjectives to describe the most phenomenal colors found in Paraiba Torumaline. A new gemstone discovered in Brazil in 1989 left gem dealers searching for such new adjectives to describe brilliant blue and green tourmalines that are more vivid than any ever seen before.
Tourmaline is the world's most colorful gemstone but, until the Paraiba deposit was found, no tourmaline had ever shown the sizzling turquoises, electric blues, rich twilight blues, and neon greens of the new discovery in Paraiba, Brazil. In fact, this color hasn't been seen with any consistency in any gemstone variety.
Paraiba: A golden Lining
The spectacular colors are due to the presence of a small amount of copper. But a recent study by the German Foundation for Gemstone Research also discovered a surprisingly high gold content. The average gold content of the earth's crust is 0.007 parts per million. Paraiba tourmalines contain a remarkable 8.6 parts per million. If they weren't so beautiful, they might be in danger of being crushed to salvage the gold!
Rarity of Paraiba Tourmaline
The tourmalines are mined near a village called Sao Jose de Batalha in the state of Paraiba, Brazil. The area produced tourmaline for almost ten years but the crystals were too fractured and broken to be cut into gemstones. Then the miners discovered a new vein of gem-quality stones with the extraordinarily bright shades of blue and green. The blues come in sizes up to eight carats and the greens up to twenty carats.
The tourmalines are found in a small hill near the village which is being mined laboriously by hand. The hand excavated shafts and interconnected tunnels are up to 60 meters deep and tourmaline is found only in small pencil-thin veins. Because of the difficulty in mining, the supply will always be limited and the tourmalines will always be rare and expensive.
Gemstones: Tanzanite Marketplace
Dealers all over the world - especially in Japan, the world's largest importer of these gemstones - are competing for the new Paraiba tourmaline, which means that it can command retail prices over $40,000 per carat for the finest specimens. Although this is more than other colors of tourmaline, it is very little when you consider how rare these gemstones are. Diamonds are quite common in comparison.
Jewelry designers are experimenting with combining the new blue and green Paraiba tourmaline shades together in one piece of jewelry. The turquoise or green colors are also often combined with pink tourmaline for striking two-tone combinations. Paraiba is like emerald in that is rarely comes without inclusions, but the color of this exceptional tourmaline is where the beauty lies.
PARAIBA is truly one of the RAREST of gem! The colorful beauty of PARAIBA is unsurpassed; its supernatural electric glow is only amplified by cutting.
The glowing exotic color of PARAIBA captures the unforgettable color of the Caribbean Sea on a bright sunny afternoon. Wearing PARAIBA jewelry is like having the wonder of the Caribbean Islands with you forever. PARAIBA the unchallenged Beauty Queen of Gems!PARAIBA first appeared on the market in early 1989 at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, creating a tremendous stir because of its unheard of asking price of as much as $900 per carat wholesale for 1- to 3-carat stones. By the end of the Show PARAIBA was selling for as much as $2,000 per carat. These same stones today can sell for as much as $10,000 per carat. The prices just continue to grow, but it is VALUE that you are purchasing when buying PARAIBA! PARAIBA JEWELRY in 18-karat white gold is a choice of distinction! The supernatural electric glow of PARAIBA in well designed and artfully created rings, pendants, and necklaces are available from Paraiba.com. If the pieces shown are not to your taste, contact Paraiba.com about a something designed to your personal specifications.
Paraiba Tourmaline
These cupriferous tourmalines from the Mina da Batalha in the Federal Brazilian State of Paraiba are small, rare and precious. Their spirited turquoise to green colours are such as are not found in any other gemstone in the world. The exclusiveness of this legendary find makes these rare gemstones real treasures.
Paraiba – the word has a particular fascination for the connoisseur, for it is the name of a gemstone with blue to green tones of extraordinary vividness. It was not discovered until very recently, that is to say in the 1980s. The world has one man and his unshakable belief to thank for the discovery of this unique gemstone: Heitor Dimas Barbosa. Tirelessly, he and his assistants spent years digging in the pegmatite galleries of some modest hills in the Federal Brazilian State of Paraiba.
Heitor Dimas Barbosa was more than just someone looking for gemstones: and apart from that he wasn't even looking for anything the existence of which had already been proved. The man was absolutely convinced that somewhere beneath the 'Paraiba hill' - famous today - he was going to find something 'completely different'. And right he was. In 1981 he began with the first preparations for excavations at an old, dilapidated opencast mine. He had one deep hole after another drilled in the hard ground - without success. But suddenly, five and a half years after the cut of the first spade, the first signs of a tourmaline find manifested themselves in the tangle of galleries, shafts and tunnels. Finally, in the autumn of 1989, a handful of the finest tourmaline crystals were brought up into the daylight from one of the many galleries - in colours of which people had so far only been able to dream. Unfortunately, just at that time, of all times, the 'father of the Paraiba tourmalines' was busy getting over an illness and was not able to be present at the mine. Indeed the raw crystals were sold without his having seen them! When word of the find had got around, there was a period of frantic activity at the mine. For a further five years, the now-famous hill, only 400 metres long, 200 metres wide and 65 metres high, was combed, and even razed to the ground in places. But it was all for nothing. There is now hardly any expectation that further finds will be made.
Brazil is the classical country of tourmalines. Members of this splendid gemstone group come in practically all the colours of the rainbow. For a long time, however, a radiant turquoise was lacking - that is, until the discovery of that precious deposit in Paraiba.
Normally, iron, manganese, chrome and vanadium are the elements responsible for the beautiful colouring in tourmalines. The Paraiba tourmaline is different: it owes its splendid colour to copper, an element which has never before been observed in a tourmaline. Indeed quite a fair proportion of its weight consists of copper. But scientists have discovered that it often also contains manganese.
In the Paraiba tourmaline, the interplay between these two elements gives rise to a variety of fascinatingly beautiful colours: emerald green, turquoise to sky blue, sapphire blue, indigo, bluish-violet, and purple.
Certain proportions in the mixture of copper and manganese can also result in pale grey to violet-blue tones. Copper in high concentrations is responsible for the highly coveted radiant blue, turquoise and green hues, while violet and red tones are caused by manganese. By means of the burning technique, experienced cutters can eliminate the red colour components, with the result that only a pure copper colour remains.
However, the extraordinary vividness of the Paraiba tourmalines does not reveal itself until the stone has been cut. Faceted, they scintillate a really unusual 'fire' and appear to glow intensely even when there is very little light. That is why their colour is often referred to as 'electric' or 'neon'. The aura of these treasures of Nature is both fresh and spirited at the same time. The 'swimming-pool-blue' of a Paraiba tourmaline positively flashes with vivacity, and you don't have to be an expert to see it.
Paraiba tourmalines are almost always quite small, since the beautiful cupriferous tourmaline crystals from the 'noble hill' in Paraiba were almost all fragments when they were discovered. Larger raw stones with a weight of over 5 grammes which had not cracked were rare, and only very few crystals had a weight exceeding 20 grammes. For that reason you are very unlikely to find a large Paraiba tourmaline at a jeweller's or gemstone merchant's - quite apart from the fact that few specialist merchants actually offer this highly esteemed gemstone rarity at all.
The gemstone world was captivated from the very beginning by the beauty and spirited colours of the Paraiba tourmalines. In no time at all they achieved great popularity, and today they are among the most sought-after and most expensive gemstones in the world. Prices continue to climb, and have already reached a level which, earlier on, would not have seemed realistic for a tourmaline. Five-figure prices per carat are by no means exceptional for fine, large specimens from Paraiba. Within a very short time, the market positively soaked up the modest supply of raw stones, which is thoroughly understandable, since Nature had created a gemstone which was peerless in terms of its colour and luminosity. And without Heitor Dimas Barbosa's vision of finding something 'completely different', we would probably never even have known about it.
Paraiba: Color
Neon. Fluorescent. Electric. Peacock. All are adjectives to describe the most phenomenal colors found in Paraiba Torumaline. A new gemstone discovered in Brazil in 1989 left gem dealers searching for such new adjectives to describe brilliant blue and green tourmalines that are more vivid than any ever seen before.
Tourmaline is the world's most colorful gemstone but, until the Paraiba deposit was found, no tourmaline had ever shown the sizzling turquoises, electric blues, rich twilight blues, and neon greens of the new discovery in Paraiba, Brazil. In fact, this color hasn't been seen with any consistency in any gemstone variety.
Paraiba: A golden Lining
The spectacular colors are due to the presence of a small amount of copper. But a recent study by the German Foundation for Gemstone Research also discovered a surprisingly high gold content. The average gold content of the earth's crust is 0.007 parts per million. Paraiba tourmalines contain a remarkable 8.6 parts per million. If they weren't so beautiful, they might be in danger of being crushed to salvage the gold!
Rarity of Paraiba Tourmaline
The tourmalines are mined near a village called Sao Jose de Batalha in the state of Paraiba, Brazil. The area produced tourmaline for almost ten years but the crystals were too fractured and broken to be cut into gemstones. Then the miners discovered a new vein of gem-quality stones with the extraordinarily bright shades of blue and green. The blues come in sizes up to eight carats and the greens up to twenty carats.
The tourmalines are found in a small hill near the village which is being mined laboriously by hand. The hand excavated shafts and interconnected tunnels are up to 60 meters deep and tourmaline is found only in small pencil-thin veins. Because of the difficulty in mining, the supply will always be limited and the tourmalines will always be rare and expensive.
Gemstones: Tanzanite Marketplace
Dealers all over the world - especially in Japan, the world's largest importer of these gemstones - are competing for the new Paraiba tourmaline, which means that it can command retail prices over $40,000 per carat for the finest specimens. Although this is more than other colors of tourmaline, it is very little when you consider how rare these gemstones are. Diamonds are quite common in comparison.
Jewelry designers are experimenting with combining the new blue and green Paraiba tourmaline shades together in one piece of jewelry. The turquoise or green colors are also often combined with pink tourmaline for striking two-tone combinations. Paraiba is like emerald in that is rarely comes without inclusions, but the color of this exceptional tourmaline is where the beauty lies.