Yellow Tourmaline

According to the principles of lithotherapy, yellow tourmaline is associated with self-love and self-confidence. It is attributed with the ability to remove emotional barriers.

It is used as protection, to attract luck, dispel doubts and fears and re-energize. More generally, tourmalines are protective stones, but meaning of yellow tourmaline is particularly associated with personal development, moving forward or progressing and feeling more inner harmony

Multiple yellow stones are used to design créations uniques originals. Discover our bagues avec tourmaline.

Yellow tourmaline offers different shades from citrine. It is an excellent alternative to saphir jaune and yellow topaz, especially for a ring, being less hard, but less subject to scratches. In some cases, it is also possible to find large yellow tourmalines more easily compared to other colored stones. Yellow tourmaline is ideal as a cabochon, if you like polished stones. It can be mounted alone on a gold ring or enhanced by the sparkle of small diamonds. It’s an original shade for a bague de fiançailles en tourmaline.

The prices of tourmalines vary considerably depending on the carats, colors, origins, etc. The tourmaline rose is searched for, like tourmaline bleue, and the prices can be high, but it is rare tourmaline de Paraïba which sometimes breaks price records.

A beautiful green tourmaline of excellent quality can also have a high price and that’s a lot more variable for the prices of yellow tourmalines.

They can be more affordable, because they quite often have small inclusions. However, prices increase with purer and masterfully cut stones. If this can represent a good choice to have a pretty yellow stone on a limited budget, we can definitely see higher prices.

Maison Bonnot allows you to find a yellow tourmaline obtained without intermediaries and certified. Black tourmaline is the best known tourmalines. Pink tourmaline is popular in jewelry. The tourmaline verte attracts more and more lovers of fine stones. But yellow, the tourmaline is not very widespread. Its multiple shades are nevertheless attractive and, above all, different from most yellow stones.

The yellow tourmaline to dark brown is called “dravite”. It comes from the Drava River in Slovenia, where it was discovered in 1883. It belongs to the large family of alumina silicates, like quartz and grenat. It is a complex mineral, due to its crystalline structure, which contains many chemical elements including iron and magnesium. Yellow tourmalines are hard stones (7 to 7.5 Mohs) that can be set on rings, pendants and other gold or silver jewelry.

Yellow tourmaline is mainly extracted in Africa (Tanzania, Madagascar), Sri Lanka and Brazil. They are found in Europe, the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Do not hesitate to contact us, because as a gemologist with a solid network, Bonnot Paris can find the perfect yellow tourmaline for you.