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 Post subject: Heating Mozambique Green Tourmaline
PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:16 pm 
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Anyone have success heat treating green tourmaline from Mozambique? Open c axis. Stone is a bit dark and i'd like to lighten it up a bit.

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 Post subject: Re: Heating Mozambique Green Tourmaline
PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:50 pm 
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Hi Jason,

You can cheaply and without specialist equipment create a reducing atmosphere to scrub some of the atoms out by packing ground-up activated charcoal or bi-carbonate or soda in tinfoil around your piece of tourmaline - this frequently helps to lighten the saturation. You will need to take it quite high in temp for some time and reduce the temp very slow to reduce thermal shock.

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 Post subject: Re: Heating Mozambique Green Tourmaline
PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 11:12 am 
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What Temperature do you suggest bringing these tourmaline up to 400 c 450 c 500 c 650 c which one this would be of a large help


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