This standard round brilliant looks a lot like a medium aquamarine. Its lighter toned blue shines and flashes easily. It appears to be eye clean and weighs .99 carats, a nice number for a droplet of color.
How nice it is, an apparently eye clean, lighter blue, completely open, droplet of color. It has fine crystal and is ready to flash and dance at a moments notice. It certainly could be an aquamarine, but tourmaline has a higher index of refraction and that makes them noticeable brighter than beryls (aquamarine is a color variety of beryl). If of course they get a great polish like this gemstone has. It weighs .99 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 looks a lot like a medium aquamarine. Its lighter toned blue shines and flashes easily. It appears to be eye clean and weighs .99 carats, a nice number for a droplet of color.
