Black Tourmaline Sphere Polished Size:2"D The pyramid form is cut

The pyramid form is cut and polished by hand

regionally sourced turquoise

Turquoise silverwork has deep roots in Southwestern

igneous pegmatites

Black Tourmaline Sphere Polished Size:2"D The pyramid form is cutA perfect black sphereopaque, cool, dense in the hand, the mineral's striations visible as faint lines in direct light. Black Tourmaline (Schorl) is a boron silicate mineral in the Tourmaline group, Mohs 77. 5, its black color produced by high iron content in the complex crystal structure. Polishing a sphere from Tourmaline requires navigating the mineral's natural cleavage planes; the finished sphere reveals the stone's internal striations across its