An unusual 24 carat piece of gueda type sapphire came into the office a while ago. From an unknown location in Africa, the piece was heavily silky and showed a reddish light-scattering Tyndall effect as shown in the video. As the piece was performed and lost mass, the Tyndall effect loss the reddish hue and became more greenish-yellow. Peeking into…
A SUPERB & SPECTACULAR RAINBOW colored tourmaline crystal from Goma in the Eastern Congo. Showing purple, pink, orange, yellow, green and a light blue, this crystal comes so close to having every color of the rainbow, in the right order of spectrum colors, but doesn’t quite have the full red. Also attached is pics and vid of the kaleidoscope of…
How the Opal Got It’s Rainbow, According to the Ancient Australians1 In the beginning, when the world was young, when the Dreamtime legends were being made, and all the beings of Australia lived under the diurnal blazing sun and brilliant night lights of the Milky Way. In these endless lands the dingo, the emu, the snake and all other creatures…
Brilliant, green, collectible and breathtaking, demantoid garnet is what laudantium, totam rem aperiam eaque ipsa, quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt, explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem, quia voluptas sit, aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos, qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt, neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor…
The Identification of Rough Gem-Quality Grandidierite In December 2016 and January 2017 a rich pocket of large gem-quality Grandidierite was found in the Tranomaro region of Southern Madagascar. What set this seam of Grandidierite apart from the 2015 and early 2016 finds, was its clean genuine gem-quality crystals found. Called by some the “World’s Rarest Gem”, the previous year’s finds…