Lagoon Tourmaline is a very special stone for me. Several years ago, I first encountered it, and at that time it had no name of its own. Some dealers referred to it as 'lagoon-colored tourmaline.' I liked that vision, and in my conversations with my dealer, we used a shortened version — we simply said 'Lagoon Tourmaline.' We even sent expeditions straight to Afghanistan, to the valley of the Kunar River, where local miners dig small tunnels into the mountainsides by hand to extract these remarkable stones.
Who knows — perhaps that was the first spark that ignited the rapid rise in popularity of Lagoon Tourmaline. At first, I believed that the color closest to the waters of a Maldivian lagoon would be found in stones with an equal balance of blue and green, or something very close to it.

Later, Afghan tourmalines of a pure blue shade appeared on the market, and they were called 'Sea Foam.' But those are not Lagoon Tourmalines — they come not from Kunar, but from Nuristan. Interestingly, these blue tourmalines are almost twice as expensive.
But I don’t care about the money. What fascinates me far more is the play of the stone, the way its colors shift across the facets and within the crystal itself, from blue to green — and yet the colors never blend into one another. Lagoon Tourmaline also has a hint of neon glow, something reminiscent of Paraiba tourmaline. These stones are truly extraordinary.