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Moderate pale green droplet of color from Brazil#1150

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Bruce Fry

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 →

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Bright cool refreshing mint blue green, cuprian round#184

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Another unexpected copper discovery with my spectrometer that is in a much more desirable (expensive) color, minty blue/green.  The eye clean stone has a very bright, medium light pastel color, but really does not have the neon look to me.  … Continue reading →

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I should make a mint, on this eye clean, mint colored droplet of color.#632

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This standard round brilliant is eye clean and with a great medium tone level.   Its blue green color loves the yellowish lights, but it is still a delight in the gray overcast light of autumn’s waning days.  I was comparing … Continue reading →

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Included minty green droplet of color.#625

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This droplet of color, in the yellowish light that I have now, is so bright and rich in color that it is hard to call it minty, but I know that in sunlight is will not be as saturated.  Its … Continue reading →

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Great light minty green droplet of color.#753

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This standard round brilliant is a really  crisp pastel green with a touch of blue.  It would make a fine after dinner mint if it wasn’t so hard.  It is eye clean and very bright.  It weighs 1.23 carats and … Continue reading →

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A slightly dichroic minty green, droplet of color#709

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Green standard round brilliants are not as common as you might think because of problems with dichroism.  Either the c axis is too dark to cut a round or one of the axis does not have a desirable color.  So … Continue reading →

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A bit of scatter in a mint green droplet of color

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Bruce Fry

The standard round brilliant grabs your eye.  At first it looks like a sea foam, but it is really too blue for that honor.  It also doesn’t have waves of the two colors (yellowish green and bluish green) mixing together … Continue reading →

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Bright dancing yellow green dynamic oval

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This flashing oval may have a bit of an inclusion that is very difficult to see by eye and has not impact on the stone.  I confess that I am drawn to greens that are open and not dichroic like … Continue reading →

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A yellow green, a good after dinner mint#905

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Bruce Fry

  This tourmaline is ready to give you a color fake and head for the “in” zone of your heart.   It is not a Heliodor,  which is a variety of beryl and is probably the most common gemstone in … Continue reading →

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