Green and Blue Tourmaline

Tourmaline – a gem of many colors and hues within each shade. Subtle variations of color derive from wildly different trace elements.

Iron or Titanium color the gem mint green, a light pastel with hints of soft blue or yellow.

Chrome tourmaline is an intense green, colored primarily by a trace element called vanadium.

Blue tourmaline is dark violet blue, blue or greenish blue, and is known as indicolite. Often a hint of green color bleeds into the blue.