This standard round brilliant is eye clean, but it only has a decent crystal. Its color is a nice lavender, but the grays descend on it. It is a droplet of color that weighs 1.06 carats.
The vast majority of purplish tourmalines do not have copper as a chromophore, but I remember the cuprians the most because they are saturated. (and expensive) This droplet of color has a nice medium toned lavender color, but the grays descend on it. My spectrometer says that it is probably colored by manganese and iron. I don’t think that it has any inclusions, but its crystal is only average. That along with a grayed color makes a somewhat dull stone, that I prize because it is different. It weighs 1.06 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 eye clean, but it only has a decent crystal. Its color is a nice lavender, but the grays descend on it. It is a droplet of color that weighs 1.06 carats.
