Thursday, January 14, 2010

tourmaline for sale

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Origin of the name tourmaline
The name tourmaline comes from the Sinhalese word "tura mali" from. Translated it means "stone with mixed colors'.

An old legend of Egypt says that a tourmaline up on the long road from the interior of the earth to the sun over a rainbow was hiked. On the way he had taken all the colors of the rainbow. Therefore it is called even today the "gemstone of the rainbow".

Origin and occurrence of tourmaline
Tourmalines are found almost everywhere in the world.