This standard round brilliant is without any color or gray problems. It came from Afghanistan, is eye clean and weighs 1.08 carats and is called Achroite in the trade.
I have a number of standard round brilliants that were cut from a lot of Afghanistan material I purchased years ago. I could see a touch of blue in part of the lot, that use to be half of a bicolor (pink was the other sides color), but feel apart. In some of the finished rounds I see a touch of blue and in others I do not. The posted gemstone is one of the larger and cleaner (eye clean) ones that I am sure is a pure Achroite (colorless) under reasonable light. It has the typical bright crisp look of Afghanistan tourmaline and weighs 1.08 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 without any color or gray problems. It came from Afghanistan, is eye clean and weighs 1.08 carats and is called Achroite in the trade.
