Rubellite Tourmaline
Rubellite is the name given to dark pink to red tourmalines, especially those with reasonably saturated colors and medium to dark tones. Ruby red stones with little orange or brown overtones are the most highly sought after.
Rubellite (Elbaite) Nomenclature
When the name "rubellite" was proposed, the naming of a natural material that can also be a gemstone was more of an art than a science.
Rubellite is a very attractive semi-precious gemstone belonging to a group called Tourmalines under which fall 6 gemstones. The name comes from the Latin term 'rebellus' meaning 'reddish'.
Rubellite
Rubellite (Rubelite), a rare variety of tourmaline, comes in red color. It is more valuable than any other varieties of the red tourmaline. The name has been derived from the Latin word "rebellus," which mean "reddish.
Rubellite Tourmaline
The rubellite is a particularly beautiful gemstone from the colourful family of the tourmalines. Its colour shines in the most beautiful nuances from red to shocking pink.
RUBELLITE
Overview: Rubellite, when exhibiting a deep red color, is the most valuable form of tourmaline. Rubellite is a variety of Pink Tourmaline that is widely popular and impressive in color and brilliance.
Appearance
The reddish to purple color of tourmaline is called rubellite. Like emerald, inclusions are common. Ruby red colored stones are the most valuable.
Rubellite - pink to red range, may also be brownish, orangy, or purplish
Verdelite - yellow green to bluish green
Indicolite - violetish to greenish blue
Dravite - yellow to brown tourmalines.
Rubellite: Red Tourmaline.
Ruby: One of the four precious gemstones along with Diamonds, Emeralds and Sapphires. Ruby is a member of the corundum family whose color comes from chromium oxide in the stone.
Rubellite tourmaline
Rubellite’s sensuous mélange is the personification of seduction; no other colors display its comparable flair.
Rubellite
Rubellite is a variety of tourmaline that is red in color.
Rubellite Used to refer to the red variety of tourmaline, including the color range from pink to red. More of a marketing than a gemological term; these days gemologists tend to use simply "red tourmaline." ...
Rubellite is a red variety of tourmaline that is red in both incandescent light and daylight making it more valuable than other varieties of red tourmaline.
Rubellite: The transparent red variety of tourmaline.
Ruby: Transparent red variety of corundum, good hardness and durability. Rare in sizes above three carats. Set in jewellery for thousands of years.
RUBELLITE TOURMALINE
These are most valuable and most rare stones. Colours vary from pale rose to deep ruby. The most important aspect to keep in mind is that more the impurities, darker the shade and lesser the price.
Rubellite - red
Indicolite - blue
Chrome- intense green colored by chromium/vanadium
Bi-Color - tourmalines which display two or more colors in the same stone ...
Rubellite may be fo various shades of colour from pale rose to dark carmine red, sometimes tinged with violet.
Rubellite (sometimes spelled rubelite) is a red variety of tourmaline. Rubellite is red in both incandescent and daylight, and is more valuable than other varieties of red tourmaline. Rubellite has a hardness of 7-7.5 and a specific gravity of 3.02-3.
Pink Tourmaline (Rubellite)
Pink tourmaline (whose actual color ranges from a deep red - hence the name rubellite - to a pale pink) is part of the triad of heart stones which also includes rose quartz and kunzite.
Tourmaline, Red (Rubellite). Balance emotions. Motivation.
Tourmaline, Green (Verdelite). Helps to re-align physical structures of the body and our connection to the energies of the planet.
(ACHROITE, RUBELLITE, INDICOLITE, VERDELITE, WATERMELON)
Tourmaline, from the singhalese tourmali, meaning mixed stone, is an extremely complex group of hydrous minerals containing Li, Al, B, and Si, ...
These include rubellite (pink to red), indicolite (blue), schorl (black), dravite (brown) and achroite (colorless).
Tourmaline boasts a number of rather amazing physical characteristics.
Red Tourmaline is called Rubellite because the deepest shades appear to be Ruby-like. Eye clean Rubellite is one of the most expensive of the Tourmalines because generally it is an included stone - clean Rubellite is very rare.
Rubellite (red) -- moderately scarce and expensive in fine qualitities. Often badly included.
Bicolor or tricolor tourmaline -- shows multiple color zones throughout the crystal. Highly prized when the colors are well divided and vivid.
The most common includes a light to dark red, purplish pink variety known as rubellite, colorless variety is known as achorite, green, blue, yellow-green, honey-yellow, pale-colored variety is known as elbaite, ...
Red Tourmaline is called "Rubellite", Pink Tourmaline will change color in different levels of light. The blue variety is called "Indigolith" and "Schorl" is the name given to black tourmaline. "Achroite" is the colorless variety of Tourmaline.
For example, a Tourmaline of an intense red is known as a Rubellite, but only if it continues to display the same fine ruby red color in artificial light as it did in daylight.
Tourmaline of the reddish variety (rubellite) is seldom of a deep red. It is more inclined to be pinkish. The dichroism of tourmaline is stronger than that of ruby and more obvious to the unaided eye.
Tourmaline can be found in more colors than any other gemstone: "Colorless," watermelon tourmaline, (both pink and green), rubellite (pink), indicolite (purple), anchorite (black), red, and green- blue.
Rubellite: Encourages unconditional love, brings emotional balance. Stone of passion. Physically, it strengthens the immune system, heals backaches, removes toxins and eases effects of radiation poisoning.
Pink to Red tourmaline is known as rubellite, and the color is probably from manganese. It is one of the most valuable of the tourmalines when the colors are dark and rich. Large flawless stones are rare, as the pink variety tends to have more flaws.
Tourmalines that are ruby colored are called rubellite tourmalines, and they cost more. There's ample proof that rubellite tourmalines make excellent ruby substitutes--royal families were fooled for centuries.
'Caesar's Ruby' (carved rubellite tourmaline) presented to Catherine the Great of Russia
Azim-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Arcot presents Queen Charlotte of Britain a gift: five diamonds of which two are the Arcots
1780 ...
"Rubellite", which can easily be mistaken for a ruby, is extraordinarily beautiful. Like other hues, it and its counterparts come in a variety of tones and intensities. "Indicolite" is a magnificent blue and can be confused with sapphire.
It ranges in color from pink to green to red (rubellite) to purple to blue-green (indicolite) to colorless (achroite) to black. Watermelon tourmaline is both pink and green.
The Paraiba type, with its vivid blue colors, is the most expensive of the tourmaline family, followed by rubellite in red to pink shades.
Rubellite: Creativity; fertility; blanches passive or aggressive nature.
Green: Creativity; opens heart chakra; immune system; psychological problems with the father; blood pressure; asthma; balancer; eliminates conflict within.
Dark blue, blue-green, and green tourmalines are occasionally heated to lighten their color. Red tourmalines, also known as rubellites, and pink varieties are sometimes heated or irradiated to improve their colors.
Tourmaline has a deep brilliance and rich colours, especially green, blue and grey.
Pink specimens are known as rubellite.
Turquoise is an opaque mineral consisting essentially of phosphates and colour ranges from sky-blue to apple green ...
Achroite, Dravite, Indigolite/Indicolite, Rubellite, Schorl, Verdelite
Turquoise
Turquoise ...
Rubellite: pink to red, sometimes with a slight shade of violet
Schorl: dark, intense black
Verdelite: all shades of green
Watermelon: dual-colored tourmalines with a red centre which changes to green towards the edges ...
The most expensive tourmalines are the blue indicolite, green verdelite and pink rubellite.
Gemstone Physical Characteristics: This Tourmaline group includes Rubellite (pink to red), Indicolite (blue), Schorl (black), Dravite (brown) and Achroite (colourless).
Gemstone Colour Variations: Very varied.
There is a large range of varieties of tourmaline including the Achroite, Dravite, Indicolite, Rubellite, Uvite, Tsilaisite, Schorl, Liddicoatite, Elbaite, Sibertite, and Verdelite ...
Rubellite is pink to red and sometimes has a violet tint. Dravite is yellow brown to dark brown. Verdelite encompasses all shades of green; Indigolite, all shades of blue; while Siberite includes lilac to violet blue.
Rubellite ... see red tourmaline
Ruby ... red corundum
Rutilated quartz ...see rutile and quartz Rutile...{roo'-teel}...titanium oxide
Comments: synth. is common.
 See also: Tourmaline, Stone, Color, Ruby, Emerald
  
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