Is tourmaline rare? How valuable is tourmaline?
It is uncommon to find tourmaline possessing a bright attractive color (pink, red, green, blue) suitable for gemstones, which is also free of defects and inclusions. Such specimens yield quite valuable finished cut stones. As a mineral, tourmaline is found throughout the world, most often as a black variety called schorl, which has no value as a gemstone.
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