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: 2.1 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm 

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

This specimen displays a beautiful rose to bubblegum-pink coloration, with richer saturation concentrated through the upper portion of the crystal. The lower portion becomes noticeably paler and more translucent, creating attractive natural variation in color from one end of the specimen to the other.

Its broad prismatic faces retain characteristic longitudinal growth striations, while the interior is filled with reflective fractures, veils, and complex growth structures. One side of the crystal features a particularly interesting recessed contact area with deeper raspberry-pink coloration, giving the specimen dramatically different character depending on the viewing angle.

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.