This standard round brilliant is eye clean and very bright, but its tone level is very low, This rare lavender colored round is a member of the IceT group. It weighs .45 carats and the droplets of color love her.
Sometimes it is not too bad to be small. I am a standard round brilliant and I am in demand because I am lavender and eye clean. I just wish that the IceT group didn’t think I belonged. I hate being so pale, but at least you can clearly see me being lavender when you try. The color comes from a combination of copper and manganese and is really quite rate in tourmaline, so it is easy to be a droplet of color. I weigh .45 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 and very bright, but its tone level is very low, This rare lavender colored round is a member of the IceT group. It weighs .45 carats and the droplets of color love her.
