Chrome tourmaline crystal on matrix from the Commander Mine, Tanzania, with bright saturated green color typical of chromium-bearing tourmaline.
Quartz and feldspar (albite) host with mica-rich seams and associated white blocky feldspar crystals. This is the classic pegmatite-style matrix you often see with East African tourmaline specimens.
Commander Mine is in northern Tanzania in the Lelatema Mountains area, a region known for producing chrome tourmaline (a chromium/vanadium colored tourmaline variety) with unusually strong green saturation compared to most tourmaline localities
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Crystal is 68 x 19.5 mm and the overall specimen is cabinet size 117 x 93 x 69 mm
Estimate: $1850 - $1950
