Archive Pictures from the “Paraiba”-Tourmaline Mining Operation at the Batalha Mine
(Batalha, Paraiba, Brazil)
Fig. Par14a-b The original “Paraiba” tourmaline mine from Sao Jose da Batalha in August 1992 (Heitor mine). The whitish dumped material consists of kaolinized pegmatite materials and quartzite. Compare with the mining operation a decade later (See Fig. Par15a). Picture Bryan Pavlik.
Fig. Par14c “Paraiba” tourmaline crystal in quartz matrix from the first mining period at the Batalha mine (Paraiba, Brazil). Length of tourmaline in matrix is 10 cm. Additional display of rough and faceted gemstones as shown at the Inhorgenta (Pavlik booth, Munich, 1993).
Fig. Par14d Faceted “Paraiba” tourmaline from the Batalha mine in a weight range of 1 to 5ct. These archived gemstones were pictured more than 10 years before the mines in Africa were discovered.
Picture (14a-d) are copyrighted by Bryan Pavlik and reproduced with permission of the “Pavlik Gem History Archive”, Vienna, Austria.
Archive Pictures from the “Paraiba”-Tourmaline Mining Operation at the Batalha Mine
(Batalha, Paraiba, Brazil)
