Background During the late 1600s or early 1700s, Dutch traders off the West Coast of Italy first discovered black tourmaline. Then, in the late 1800s, Tiffany and Co. bought a tourmaline from the mineralogist, George Kunz. Precisely, tourmaline derives from the Sinhalese word “Turmali” which means colored crystals. In fact, for decades, different countries found […]