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Consummate
The finished article — the one gem colour no other stone has ever matched.
Paraíba Tourmaline · The Law of Presentation
- Family
- Elbaite tourmaline coloured by copper
- Hardness
- 7–7.5 on the Mohs scale
- Colour
- Neon turquoise to electric blue-green that appears to be lit
- Signature
- Copper-bearing tourmaline; found 1989 in Paraíba, Brazil
The stone read as the word
One prospector dug the same hill in Paraíba for years before the neon vein appeared in 1989. The colour was so complete that the trade had no comparison for it and simply named it after the place. Consummate is the level at which a thing stops being compared.
It is copper that does it — the same element in chrysocolla and turquoise, here inside a hard tourmaline lattice. The finished version is often an old ingredient in a better structure.
What it is carried for
- Carried for mastery — the work done all the way to the end.
- Held when good enough is not the standard.