Crystal Encyclopedia
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Paraiba Tourmaline
The Electric Calm
The signal went dead and nothing mild is going to restart it. Paraiba tourmaline gets its neon blue-green from copper substituting into an elbaite lattice, a color so electrically saturated it registers before the eye adjusts. Restart requires copper-level voltage.
Throat ChakraElbaiteNeon Blue to Blue-greenBrazil
Pink Tourmaline
The Grief Transformer
You need tenderness that can hold a line. Pink tourmaline is elbaite colored by manganese, warm in a crystal that still grows in striated prisms with piezoelectric charge. Softness with current in it lasts longer.
Heart ChakraElbaitePink to Deep Rose, SometimesBrazil, Nigeria, Afghanistan