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I bought a crystal wand today, and thought it was watermelon tourmaline but it was in fact a combination stone. It's fuschite, kyanite and ruby! I read the descriptions and the ruby especially was absolutely spot on, I couldn't have been drawn to a bettter match! However, when I asked whether the stone was naturally formed the lady said yes, but when I looked them up the fuschite & kyanite both came from Brazil, but ruby doesn't...
Is this a naturally formed combination stone?



Hi Azalia I can only think the lady understood your question to mean as indivual stones. not as a wand if you see what i mean? Ie each stone is natural & not lab made. It does sound like a beautiful wand Azalia & the most important thing is that you were drawn to it.. you seemed to have picked each other. Have fun & enjoy getting to know your new friend & allie;)
Love & Hugs Maria xxx



Hi Azalia
I bought a raw piece of this combination crystal just before Christmas and yes it is naturally formed. It is a beautiful combination and I hope that you enjoy your wand as much as I enjoy my crystal.
Love and light
IndianRainbow
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Now that's an interesting puzzle...
Let's narrow it down a little... Watermelon Tourmaline definitely comes from Brazil, as does Fuschite and Kyanite, but Ruby - well I have never heard of South American Rubies... ever. That's not to say of course that they are not there.
Yet the formations of these minerals offers further clues; Fuschite and Kyanite are metamorphic formed, but Ruby and W.T are not - they form with igneous rock groups.
If your 'wand' really is made of these 3 minerals... Fuschite is soft and breaks away just by rubbing with your fingernail - to a greeny glittery powder, Kyanite is also quite easy to break in one direction (longitude-wise) a blue to black mineral. But Ruby is exceptionally hard. Now because of all these three minerals having different, varying hardneses - IMHO it would be very, very difficult to fashion a wand from them - from a natural composition.
On the other hand, if it were WT; you'll be quite fortunate as such would be an exceptionally rare find cut as a wand... It would also, no doubt cost a lot of money. Any chance you can take a picture and post it in here? Then we'll get closer to the root of the problem...
Sol.



I will take a picture and post it here asap...hopefully it might help!



here's the two pictures of my combination crystal wand. The first is a detailed picture, the second is for scale:D



Wow! Gorgeous wand!



hee hee I paid her to say that[8D]



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back to the question, what do you think Sol- is it really a combination of Fushcite, Kyanite and Ruby- if so, is it naturally formed? Or could it possibly be watermelon tourmaline? Personally I don't think it is WT, as it wouldn't have the textured white bits in it. Here's a couple of pics of Watermelon Tourmaline for anyone who wants to see:



Ok...
What a curious looking object!
The first clear issue is the rubies... it definitely - as far as I can see - has Ruby crystals in it. We can see this because of the crystal symmetry and structure; if you look at the ruby (red) crystals that are in 'cross section' - you'll see that they are hexagonal - they have a distinct six sided shape. The colour is another dead giveaway - very distinctly Ruby in colour. We can't see it in the pictures - but I'll hazard a gues that if you look closely at the wand - you will see at least one of the Ruby crystals to have a 'tapered barrel' shape - ie hexagonal yet cylindrical small at either end - widening towards the middle and then smaller to the other end. All Sapphires and Rubies form like this.
Without being able to examine the item personally - I would doubt the presence of Fuschite, Kyanite is an 'outside possibility but unlikely. I would be virtually certain it comes from India.
Sol.



India! I never even thought of that!
Well, one thing's for sure- from your description I am certain that it contains rubies, but I too am not convinced about the Fuschite & Kyanite. My friend owns a complimentary therapy centre and a crystal/gifts shop and I saw a large piece of raw fuschite- it was really shimmery- not at all like the green in my wand. Kyanite really isn't the right colour to be contained in the crystal either...I haven't a clue what the pale cream colour shade is!
Ah well, next time I go to a crystal fayre I'll have to take it along for other peoples' opinions....
thanks for your help!