Lovely Stewart Pink to Olive Green Afghan Tourmaline CRYSTAL lot for Cabbing and Faceting. Most of these are crystals with at least one terminated tip and would be ideal for wire-wrapping or some other creative jewelry project. I would say that roughly 70% of this material is Cabbing grade being slightly to heavily included; however, there are a few stones in here that are facet grade while others have very clean sections. Most stones in this lot are crystal sections and will support high yields. This lot is being sold as Crystal Rough and is prices as such!

1. Afghan Tourmaline pockets tend to be relatively small in size and as a result consistency in color& quality is a rarity! We have never seen Afghan Tourmaline sold by the kilo with like colored and quality material and lots are generally small in size seldom going over 1/2-1 kilo.

2. All Afghan Tourmaline is exhumed from primary deposits and as a result mining costs are considerably higher due to dynamite expenditures and traveling expenditures to get to remote mining areas. It is also interesting to note that since all Afghan Tourmaline is from primary deposits most rough will usually have sharp crystal faces.