{"id":14773,"date":"2025-11-27T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=14773"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:57:34","slug":"rubellite-tourmaline-smoky-quartz-barra-do-salinas-coronel-murta-minas-gerais-region-brazil","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/?product=rubellite-tourmaline-smoky-quartz-barra-do-salinas-coronel-murta-minas-gerais-region-brazil","title":{"rendered":"Rubellite Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz: Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais Region, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Species: Rubellite Tourmaline (Elbaite), Smoky Quartz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Locality: Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Size: 17 x 8 x 4 cm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gorgeous, very aesthetic specimen featuring a very large, deep-red gemmy rubellite tourmaline crystal perched on a smoky quartz crystal matrix studded with small red tourmalines from the famous Barra do Salinas locality in Brazil. Fantastic aesthetics, great color, and good transparency make this a very nice Brazilian tourmaline from older finds. One repair (around the middle of the tourmaline crystal) has been professionally done in a mineral lab and are invisible to the naked eye. Comes with a custom clutch mount style base which really enhances the already exceptional aesthetics of this specimen. Fantastic tourmaline! Mark Cross photo.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Species: Rubellite Tourmaline (Elbaite), Smoky Quartz Locality: Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil Size: 17 x 8 x 4 cm. Gorgeous, very aesthetic specimen featuring a very large, deep-red gemmy rubellite tourmaline crystal perched on a smoky quartz crystal matrix studded with small red tourmalines from the famous Barra do Salinas locality in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14774,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/14773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perssonrareminerals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}