Plum Tourmaline 5mm Cube Table Cut Bead - 15-16 Inch Faceted Bicone Malachite was used extensively as

Malachite was used extensively as decoration in the palaces of Russian tsars and forms the columns of St

the fossilized resin of prehistoric pine trees

the mineral was named for French paleontologist Eugene Durmortier (1803-1873)

Green Tourmaline ranges in color from pale green to dark emerald to shades of olive and moss green

gray and black

Plum Tourmaline 5mm Cube Table Cut Bead - 15-16 Inch Faceted Bicone Malachite was used extensively asTourmaline is classified as a semiprecious stone and occurs in a vast array of colors, everything from colorless to black, from pastel to bright to dark. It can even exhibit various colors within the same specimen. Its name derives from the Sinhalese word turamali, which translates to stone of many colors. Due to this variety of colors, Tourmaline has often been confused with other stones. Many stones in the Russian crown jewels from the 17th century