This standard round brilliant is small and included, but has a touch of violet in its pink from copper. It is a useful member of the droplets of color and weighs .41 carats.
This standard round droplet of color is not eye clean, but the stone is still bright. I actually bought this small one because it contains copper. When I saw it finished I wonder if it was truly cuprian. When I check it with my spectrometer it did show that the gemstone absorbs light, like it should for copper. I could also see a faint violet cast to the light pink color. Even though it is small and included, it is useful in the collection because it is the sole representative of such a dab of copper in pink. It weighs .41 carats.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
This standard round brilliant is small and included, but has a touch of violet in its pink from copper. It is a useful member of the droplets of color and weighs .41 carats.
