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Tag Archives: brown-orange
A dynamic tidal basin of color, yellow, orange, brown, purple, pink round
It is nice to finish a smaller standard round brilliant of 1.75 carats without having anything to pull my hair out for. The stone is probably rich in manganese of different valence states and high manganese can lead to a … Continue reading
Dissecting a Dravite Hot Off the Lap.
I am continually amazed by the variety of dynamic colors in tourmaline. And shifts in color than can make a less desirable color in gemstone still blaze with a unique statement. And a unique tourmaline certainly gets my attention. The … Continue reading
Posted in Cutting Tourmaline, Dravite, Orange
Tagged brown, brown-orange, cutting tourmaline, dichroic, dravite, mahogany, orange
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Golden brown to brownish orange either way it is still beautiful. oval#297
This long ratio oval is cut as shallow as the pavilion can be made with good optics and with a respectable crown. Its color slides around brown and can be golden or quite orange, but still a dravite. It appears … Continue reading
Posted in Dravite, Orange
Tagged brown-orange, dravite, golden-brown, orange, orange-brown
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Desatured orange I call mahogany, oval.#278
I usually don’t go too far over the edge when it comes to naming tourmaline’s colors and I have brown on this stone’s storage box, but the gem is too nice for such a bland term. This desaturated brownish orange … Continue reading
Brown, long ratio oval, table perpendicular to principle axis. cuprain #268
I like this oval’s color. It is the closest to a pure brown in the collection. I does approach brown from the yellow side, but it has no pretenses of having a fancy name. It has a nice even color, … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Dravite, Etc., Orange
Tagged brown-orange, cuprian, dravite, orange, oval, unique
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Mahogany, brown orange, droplet of color.#940
Now what is in a name. Too much I am afraid. This standard round brilliant is a pretty gemstone. It appears to be eye clean and has fine crystal. Its medium dark tone value still permits the stone to be … Continue reading
Posted in Dravite, Droplets of Color, Orange
Tagged brown-orange, dravite, droplet-of-color, mahogany
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A fine orange round under yellow light, that goes browner in daylight. #85
This bright flashy orange is at home under my yellowish light, but turns browner under the bluer light of day. I can not see a significant difference in hue between this orange that browns out and some of the great … Continue reading
Medium dark toned orange brown flash, round #79
This is one of the “modern” dravites that has come out of East Africa. It is not too dark to have decent flash and the orange tones make it spicy enough to demand a new name rather than dravite in … Continue reading
Dravite, just not enough satuation to keep this Orange without Brown, Oval#511
This oval has a good size, fine crystal and is probably eye clean, but gets very little respect because its saturation (purity of color) is not high enough to scare away the brown. This problem is shared with many other … Continue reading
You may call it mahongany or I might call it root beer, oval#278
I haven’t seen this material in a long time. It is a desaturated orange that makes a fine rich browned orange. I think that this stone is cut with the table perpendicular to the c axis and that produces a … Continue reading
Orange flash in a brown body, oval#258
The verdict is in, this is a traditional dravite, even if the flash has quite a good orange color. The oval has a nice medium tone level and appears to be eye clean with good crystal. But it can not … Continue reading
A mahogany GEM flashes in the collection, emerald cut.
The composite color brown (a color not found in the rainbow that comes from mixing colors) does not get very much respect in the color stone world. I realize that might be changing with the development of a market for … Continue reading
Posted in Dravite, Orange
Tagged brown-orange, dravite, emerald cut, mahogany, non-dichroic, orange
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