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Colours of Elba

2 colours tied to Elba, Italy: made there, traded there or named after it.

Grey Hematite A mineral iron oxide, black to red, used since prehistory as a pigment and oreColour named from nature · 🇿🇦 South Africa +5

#86A1A9 Tourmalineටෝරමල්ලි A mineral group prized for its rainbow of gemstone coloursColour named from nature · 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka +5

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Sienna: DanielCD~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Tourmaline: Aurelienreys, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

The weekly palette

Every Monday: seven colours you may not know, what the world is wearing this week, and one idea about colour.