Tourmaline: A Gemstone Spectrum
- ISBN-10
- 0971537127
- ISBN-13
- 9780971537125
- Series
- Tourmaline
- Category
- Science / Earth Sciences / Mineralogy
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Lapis International LLC
- Author
- Brian C. Cook
Description
1969 *** color - causing transition metals or other causes such as color centers ( insufficiently studied ) pink - red elbaite , liddicoatite , content * Manning 1969 , olenite , tsilaisite ( often associated 1973 ; with exposure to ...
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