Black Tourmaline Crystal Bracelet - Grade A Hematite an eighteenth-century label attached to

an eighteenth-century label attached to the wrong stone and was never corrected

and never wash it

the American cousin of the kitchen sages that scent Levantine kitchens

the same species as emerald - iron turns it blue where chromium turns emerald green - and at Mohs 7

Black Tourmaline Crystal Bracelet - Grade A Hematite an eighteenth-century label attached toBlack tourmaline a dense black scored with fine lengthwise grooves, one of the most chemically complex minerals worn as a stone. Harder than quartz, with a crisp polish and heft. Strung on elastic cord. It is schorl, the iron rich tourmaline, its formula running to a dozen elements. The fine parallel lines on the beads are striations grooves from the crystals growth that survive the polish, a signature of genuine tourmaline. The mineral is