Tourmaline- Água Branca pegmatite, Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Tourmaline
Água Branca pegmatite, Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dimensions: 1.1 x 1.1 x 1.0 cm
Collector note: This crystal has a chip off the top of the termination. See photos and video. 

A beautiful natural pink Elbaite Tourmaline crystal from the Água Branca pegmatite in Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 

This compact crystal displays a beautiful strawberry to bubblegum-pink coloration, with slightly deeper saturation toward the upper portion and a subtle warm peachy-orange hue visible along the lower edge. The translucent crystal allows light to penetrate deeply, illuminating an intricate network of internal growth features, veils, and reflective surfaces.

The broad prismatic faces exhibit fine longitudinal striations characteristic of tourmaline, along with subtle stepped growth patterns. Its chunky proportions give this specimen a substantial appearance despite its smaller size, while the combination of strong color and translucency makes it especially bright when viewed under direct or backlighting.

The Água Branca pegmatite is part of the famous gem-bearing pegmatite region of Minas Gerais and is particularly noted among collectors for producing colorful elbaite tourmalines. Pink elbaite from this locality is an excellent representation of the richly colored tourmalines for which Brazil is renowned.