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Tag Archives: Brazil
Moderate pale green droplet of color from Brazil#1150
This standard round brilliant is moderately included. Its minty green body produces a reasonable amount of flash. I bought the rough in a lot from Brazil and it was some of the first material I cut, when I was getting … Continue reading
Posted in Droplets of Color, Verdelite
Tagged Brazil, droplet-of-color, green, mint, pale, verdelite
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Included peach pink droplet of color, Brazil#1149
This round was not permitted into the collection for many years because of its heavy inclusions. I had purchased the rough from Brazil when I started cutting again and loved the color, but couldn’t really cut a clean stone. The … Continue reading
Posted in Droplets of Color, Pink
Tagged Brazil, color-shift, droplet-of-color, peach, pink
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Heavily included pale green emerald cut. Brazil#1142
When I first got back into faceting after a long hiatus, I bought mostly small sized, inexpensive, cutting rough, much of which was junk. The lot that the posted gemstone came from was Brazilian and had tourmaline with three distinctly … Continue reading
Pastel green pink bicolor from Brazilian “salad”. #59
I read somewhere that Brazil, the homeland of tourmaline for many years was not producing much quality material anymore. But it was producing what they cal “salad” which are native cut gemstones in mostly included tourmaline. Sometimes it is just … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Cutting Tourmaline
Tagged bicolor, Brazil, cutting tourmaline, emerald cut, green, pastel, pink
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Quite included candy orange oval, Brazil#550
This oval was cut from a piece of “salad” that I purchased from Brazil. “Salad” are low grade tourmalines that are faceted by native cutters. I got some just to see if I could get some different shades of color … Continue reading
A heavily included experiment in the round.#510
The standard round brilliant that is heavily included was just an experiment. I had purchased some Brazilian “salad”(low grade faceted gemstones) to try and see if I could get something different.(I did get a couple of grayed purples that are … Continue reading
Pale citrus yellow without green emerald cut from Brazil
When I started cutting gemstones again after a long hiatus, I bought only small material. The first dealers I worked with on the internet were really junk deals. The posted citrus yellow emerald cut was an attempt to get something … Continue reading