Burma007 - Mushroom Tourmaline - Momeik, Mogok, Shan State, Burma (Myanmar)

Excellent specimen of "mushroom" tourmaline on matrix from the finds in 2003 and 2004. The largest mushroom measures 3.1 cm across and has an excellent raspberry color and good translucency. I have seen studies indicating that the tourmaline has a schorl core with a red overgrowth of either elbaite or olenite (another tourmaline group mineral.) Overall size is 4.3 x 3.9 x 2.8 cm.