Tourmaline sphere The luster combined with the

The luster combined with the “stacked” or layered growth of the Barytes is what makes the piece so good for the locality

but they are typically nearly opaque and black internally

the word Kreuzerlütte is most likely a reference to the Greizer Hütte area which is indeed in the Zillertal

It's rare enough to find THREE twins on matrix like this

Tourmaline sphere The luster combined with theA superb, pristine, miniature size multicolor crystal with an attractive pyramidal termination, TOP glassy luster and excellent gemminess. Afghanistan (particularly Paprok) has truly produced some of the most attractive Tourmaline specimens around for the last 25 years or so, and they have really held their own against Tourmalines from other world localities. This crystal has a beautiful colorless "Achroite" termination that occupies over 50% of the