This is a very nice gem quality raw Tourmaline Rubellite (Trace amounts of manganese create rubellite's natural pink to red color) crystals stud earrings from Brazil in great condition. It is set in silver stamped 925.
A misleading term for rubellite a red-pink variety of tourmaline - Siberian ruby
Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 1.7 Centimeters in length; crystals are 10mm in length
Weigh: 2.61 grams

Interesting Fact: Caesar's Ruby (Caesar's Ruby' - a 255.75ct gemstone that has been regarded for centuries and traded among French, Russia and Sweden since the late 16th century.) is a piece of jewellery well known to anyone with a special interest in the history of the Russian and Swedish Crown Jewels. Caesar's Ruby is a historical jewel that eventually turned out not to be a ruby at all but a rubellite tourmaline after it was examined by the mineralogist Aleksandr Evgenevich Fersman (1883-1945) while he was overseeing an inventory of the Russian crown jewels in 1922