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Tag Archives: orange-brown
A medium tone level brown to brownish orange oval.#298
This oval has a normal depth and lighter medium tone level than most of the dravites in this tray. It goes more orange brown from brown in my yellowish light, but it doesn’t reach beyond a rather watery presences. It … Continue reading
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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A pink to orange, but mostly brown, sliding round.#78
Not all browns are created equality and many dealers probably don’t care because once a stone is dominated by brown it becomes a vile creature. It is called dravite, a name that sounds vaguely like an ancient language and left … Continue reading
A brown descent into orange wood, mahogany,round.#543
When I looked at the back of this standard round brilliant to look for flaws I was somewhat frustrated by my past cutting behavior. There was a white inclusion about one third of the way up from the pavilion and … Continue reading
Dark toned and flash driven golden/orange brown oval
This bigger oval is reaching the limit, set by its darker tone, in size that an effective oval can be cut. It is dark, but from its depths still come bright flashes of golden orange. Dichroism does not appear to … Continue reading
Dichroic orange brown oval
This oval was cut with the darker dichroic color on the side of the oval and the paler orange brown in the ends. If it works with the piece of rough, it is a good way to get a reasonable … Continue reading
An incredibly dichroic mahogany oval#289
I have been waiting to post about this longer ratio, deeply cut oval. Face up the dravite, a trade name for brown tourmaline, looks like many of the brown gems I have posted about, with the possible exception that its … Continue reading
A brown has come around, again, oval.#288
I smile when I wrote again in the title, because I like this stone and I wish that more browns would roll my way. But I haven’t seen any for years (2013). I am sure the rough came from East … Continue reading
A orangish brown dravite from East Africa, emerald cut
Brown is not the most desirable color in gemstones, but some stones are so bright and feisty that even brown can not hold them back. This emerald cut is a representative of a group of dravites coming out of East … Continue reading
Browner more forceful orange with hint of red, droplet of color.
From a distance this standard round brilliant might appear to be a brown, but on a more personal relationship level, it reveals a complex personality. Orange flash with a hint of red fill the rotating stone and declares its difference. … Continue reading
Posted in Droplets of Color, Orange
Tagged color-shift, droplet-of-color, orange, orange-brown, red-orange
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Dravite in Stone, Oval#1090
This gemstone has a nice sharp crown with two steps. It body has good crystal and is eye clean. All great features for a stone that should step forward, but the desaturation of its orange color, that produces a brown … Continue reading