Oct 07, 2020

October's birthstones, Opal and Tourmaline

Congratulations and happy birthday to all our friends and readers with October birthdays! Besides being your birth month, you also have Halloween celebrations and fall fashion to love. To add to your exciting day, we are sharing with you 10 amazing facts about your birthstones.

1. Tourmalines are mined everywhere in the world including Africa, Afghanistan, Africa, Australia, Brazil, Kenya, Madagascar, and other counties. It’s even mined in Southern California.

2. Tourmaline occurs in every color of the rainbow and in combinations of two or three colors, like watermelon tourmaline.

3. Ancient legend says that tourmaline is found in all colors because it traveled along a rainbow and gathered all the rainbow's colors.

4. The Egyptians used tourmaline for both physical and emotional remedies. They firmly believed that tourmaline could heal the nervous system, blood diseases and lymph glands.

5. The last Empress of China, Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi was in love with pink tourmaline. So much so that most of the pink tourmaline that was ever mined in Southern California belonged to her collection.