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Tag Archives: yellow-green
Rather dull yellow green closed ended emerald cut.#436
This stocky emerald cut has closed ends, but has a good amount of flash. In the daylight its color definitely has a bronze, brownish cast in the medium dark plus toned, yellow green color. But this is a gemstone that … Continue reading
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Smaller emerald cut with dichroic green and yellow green color.#434
This emerald cut has normal angles and an open yellowish green c axis. The a/b axis is a medium green and the overall tone level is moderate. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It came from … Continue reading
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Completely open, bright blue green emerald cut, Afghanistan#432
This is another winner from Afghanistan. Its yellower c axis sparkles in the end and the bluer a/b axis dichroic color makes for a touchdown. As usual the stone has great transparency. It appears to be eye clean and weighs … Continue reading
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Closed ended with classic yellowish green color, emerald cut.#414
This emerald cut is an excellent representative for its class of tourmaline. It has the following properties. 1, Strongly dichroic, with a closed c axis. 2, Well saturated slightly yellowish green a/b axis. 3, Cut with steep ends to minimize … Continue reading
Medium light tone, blue green color with significant flaw, emerald cut#412
This bright open blue green emerald cut has sparkle in the ends. It has a more shift in its color than the more common yellow greens which is pleasing. Unfortunately this gemstone appears to have failed and there is a … Continue reading
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Dichroic medium light yellow green emerald cut.#407
The ends of this emerald cut are a deeper yellow green, while the body of the gemstone is a medium toned green. It is a nice open gemstone that is only moderately dichroic. It weighs .60 carats. Bruce
Spicy yellowish green medium plus tone level, emerald cut
The long ratio of this narrow emerald cut minimizes the closed ends and put forward a nice medium plus tone level of spicy green. It appears to be eye clean and weighs.1.32 carats. Bruce
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Dichroic, but open ended snappy green emerald cut.#1157
This emerald cut has a little less than a medium tone level to set off a yellowish green to bluish green, flashy, color. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It is only mildly dichroic and has … Continue reading
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Moderately included spring green droplet of color.#1147
This standard round brilliant has a nice , spring green, look despite its moderate inclusions. Its medium tone level is much in demand with the droplets of color. It weighs 1.36 carats. Bruce
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Medium toned, blue green, dichroic gemstone is a droplet of color.#1133
This standard round brilliant has an interest mixture of the two dichroic colors of blue green and yellow green. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs .54 carats and is a droplet of color. Bruce.
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Summing up the parts, beautiful yellow green shield cut.#1124
With all the difficulty and expense of getting natural tourmaline rough, it makes me wonder sometimes why I just don’t cut synthetic. I don’t believe in any mystical force of nature or the healing power of natural gemstones, but I … Continue reading
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Tagged green, outstanding, shield, verdelite, yellow-green
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Another winner, pale yellow green, deep round.#1122
I feel a growing acceptance of a new force in the round world. It the tourmaline rough meets the following criteria, it may end up being cut with a split horizontal main pavilion and a modified step cut crown. 1, … Continue reading
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Nice sized, larger, medium toned yellow green round.#194
This medium toned yellow green is on the yellow side again. I just can not lay off the yellows. It has fine crystal and appears to be eye clean. As usual it is very bright and flashy, which may be … Continue reading
Bronze star for this round since the color doesn’t sell it.#193
Bronze is a nice way of saying that the yellow green has enough brown in it to be darker and not as flash. And that is what we have with this standard round brilliant. It is a rather common color … Continue reading
Excellent yellow green with the green dominating, round#192
This is an excellent, wide open, fully transparent, deep round. The depth of the stone is enhanced by the used of horizontally split mains. Its color is a flashy medium tone that appears to be eye clean. I use the … Continue reading
Slightly included, nicely saturated, yellow green, cuprian, droplet of color.#174
I was most fortunate to be in the hunt for different colors in tourmaline, when Mozambique began to produce cuprian tourmaline. Then it was years before the copper bearing nature of the deposit was revealed in a reverse Alexandrite color … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, droplet-of-color, green, Mozambique, verdelite, yellow-green
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Richer yellow green droplet of color.#172
When I venture out into the world of tourmaline rough for sale, I do not really think about what I want, rather what I have an opportunity to buy. If I am able to make a tentative list of possible … Continue reading
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A yellow green with an uplifting shield cut.#168
When you have a piece of rough that is being preformed and it looks like it will make a shield cut, things are going well. This eye clean, medium toned yellow green is nice, but the cut makes it a … Continue reading
This medium light, pastel yellow green, droplet of color is included.#152
This gemstone has a galaxy of tiny flashing inclusions. It certainly effects the droplets of color’s flash. But in a way it makes it look more like candy, that is also enhanced by the stone light tone values. It weighs … Continue reading
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Medium Toned, Yellow Green Bronze Round #93
This medium toned standard round brilliant is both not a dense stone or one that is excessively brown. Its color is not completely driven by flash and under a gray sky I can see some bronze flash mixed into a … Continue reading
Droplets of color unite, a yellow green gift is upon us. #72
This standard round brilliant is nothing more than a excellent example of an eye clean, very bright and flashy, yellow green colored beauty. So if you like acid yellow green, you will love this round. It weighs 1.18 carats and … Continue reading
A great, clean, yellow green piece of eye candy, copper bearing round. #62
This is a beautiful gemstone. Its acid yellow green color seems to burn a hold threw the little plastic box I store it in. Its medium toned splendor is augmented by having copper as a chromophore in its chemistry. I … Continue reading
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Tagged cuprian, green, neon, outstanding, yellow-green
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Bright yellow green oval with a two step crown. #51
Yellow green is a wide venue that is full of excitement with tourmaline. This bright yellow green oval is toward the medium toned, yellow end. It appears to be eye clean and have excellent crystal. It maybe me, but I … Continue reading
Pastel yellow to green slider, round#643
This medium light toned pastel flirts with both yellow and green. The cut between these colors is always difficult in tourmaline and depends in part on the individuals eyes. Yellow is the much rare color as you will definitely see … Continue reading
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Bright eye clean peridot yellow green, round#642
It is rather sad to use peridot’s green to reference tourmaline’s, but I think that more people know it than tourmaline’s colors. Hopefully not for long. I like yellow greens in tourmaline, they polish wonderfully and I think they have … Continue reading
One vertical feather and the green flashes on, droplet of color#639
I can see I was successful with this standard round brilliant in getting the principle feather to intersect the table at about ninety degrees. Face up the feather is just a narrow whitish line. The bright, rich, exceptional, slightly yellowish … Continue reading
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Medium toned sea foam from Afghanistan, droplet of color#626
This standard round brilliant was cut from the lot of high quality sea foam I obtained from Afghanistan. It is eye clean and medium toned, but really too small to show the dynamic interplay of the blue green and yellow … Continue reading
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Tagged afghan, blue-green, dichroic, droplet-of-color, green, seafoam, verdelite, yellow-green
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Please pass the extra virgin olive oil, droplet of color.#620
Olive oil has grown in popularity over the years and I vote for this color to get more respect in tourmaline too. It doesn’t have to be rare to be good for your color appreciation. It sets off its color … Continue reading
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Pale, completely uniform yellow green pastel, droplet of color#617
This tourmaline was born to not look like tourmaline. The standard round brilliant that was cut from it is bright and flashy, but with only enough tone level to just keep out of the IceT space. It could easily be … Continue reading
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Olive yellow green droplet of color.#615
Now there are all sorts of olive greens in tourmaline and it is not a particularly prized color. This medium dark, standard round brilliant, has decent flash for it tone level. It also appears to be eye clean with good … Continue reading
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A smaller plain green droplet of color.#773
This standard round brilliant has a good tone level for a smaller droplet of color. The rather sedate green is just that green. It seems with tourmaline you are always reaching for adjectives to describe the multitudes of greens. Well … Continue reading
Here is the yellow green Peridot color you have been looking for round.#719
These standard round brilliants are so bright when they are cut from a medium pastel piece of rough, with a great color, like this one. This stone acts like a headlight in my secret place besides a twisted florescent light … Continue reading
Dichroic greenish yellow eye candy, emerald cut
One of the features I love about color in tourmaline is how different a color such as yellow green can look/feel in different gemstones. I think there are at least three different sets of conditions that can produce a yellow … Continue reading
Big and Bright and Brassy, Yellow Green Emerald Cut.
Here is a live one. This large extremely bright yellow green without any dark tones, emerald cut will not calm down. I personally think that yellow greens are some of the brightest tourmalines out there. Whether it is to do … Continue reading
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A green oval that reminds me of seaweed.
Tourmaline comes in every shade of green from yellows that just a touch of green to blues the hate to show their green wash. This oval is a bid different green with a level of yellow that reminds me of … Continue reading
Classic, longer ratio closed ended, yellow green emerald cut.
This longer ratio emerald cut appears to be eye clean and with good crystal. The emerald cut’s ratio helps to reduce the impact of the close ends. The ends are faceted with normal angles. Its green color is the classic, … Continue reading
This smaller oval dances to a yellow green tune
This yellow green oval is not dichroic and has a bright eye clean look. It has fine crystal and a moderate tone level. It would look great in a delicate,golden ring. It weighs .77 carats. ( Its tone level and … Continue reading
Makes you wonder if it is a tourmaline emerald cut.
The only problem with pretending that this is not a tourmaline is the color. I don’t know too many other gemstones that have this stone’s bright yellow green hue. (Maybe beryl) Still all the people who think that tourmaline is … Continue reading
Slightly included spicy green emerald cut.
This nice sized emerald cut is slightly included, but the tiny dark lines are not distracting. This is not true of the emerald cuts color which is a really bright and fun, slightly yellowish green color. The ends of the … Continue reading
Darker Yellow Green Clean Round
This standard round brilliant is a yellow green with a higher tone level than most. I would not call it a classic tourmaline green because it is too yellow. It appears to eye clean and has excellent crystal. At 2.72 … Continue reading
Average darker toned yellow green round.
This standard round brilliant has a couple of white flaws and a faint feather that are next to the girdle. They do not impact the beauty of the gemstone very much. The rest of the stone has decent clarity and … Continue reading
Green IceT over ice, droplet of color
This standard round brilliant is a yellow green, but it is cool and icy light. With a tone level that darn near hits bottom, this eye clean droplet is very bright and crisp. It weighs 1.03 carats and helps bring … Continue reading
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Dichroic yellow green and yellow brown droplet of color.
There has been quite a bit of looking at this standard round brilliant stone before its color was figured out. At first glance it seemed almost like a gray, but then brownish flashes appeared. Now that doesn’t make a lot … Continue reading
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An average tourmaline green with steep ends emerald cut.
I have cut many gemstone like this classic, medium dark toned, yellow green that drifts into blue green, emerald cut with closed ends. The emerald cut does benefit from steeper ends, but if I have a decently large ratio between … Continue reading
Smaller dichroic green oval
This dichroic oval in a mixture of bluer and yellower greens and is nice to see in an oval. It is darker than ideal, but still displays it color nicely. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 1.14 carats. … Continue reading
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Medium Dark Tone Level in a Deep Round
This round, which has a horizontally split main pavilion, is a down to earth yellow green beauty without any brown tones. It does not appear to be dichroic in any appreciable way. So it is bright, even and resistant to … Continue reading
Bright dancing yellow green dynamic oval
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
Darker tone Jumper from yellow green flash to blue flash, round.
Here is another good one. This standard round brilliant is dark enough to have its color mainly flash driven under average lighting conditions. I have a yellowish light and a diffused midday light to work with. And this stone’s flash … Continue reading
Very Nice Greenish Yellow Deeply cut Round
This gemstone got a split horizontal main pavilion to enrich its really nice yellow, washed in green. That kind of pavilion can make a stone hard to photograph, but it shines when it is moved. The nice average tone level … Continue reading
Moderate Dichroism in Green Oval#241
This gemstones gains quit a bit from its dichroism. This because its tone in the ends of the oval are quit moderate and the overall stone shows the two colors well. The typical c axis color is yellower with the … Continue reading
Darker ends on smaller oval#239
This smaller oval has a nice blue flash in the middle of the gemstone and darker yellowish green ends. It is still flashy and really fires up under incandescent lights. It weighs 1.06 carats and appears to be eye clean. … Continue reading
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Spicy mixture greens in an oval#234
Another find member of a large family of spicy dynamic green tourmaline. The c axis is the yellower color and the bluer color is the a/b axis color. I always put the a and b axis together because they … Continue reading
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Very Dichroic Green Oval
The two dichroic colors in the this oval are very distinct, while still being green. The c axis in the ends of the ovals are a nice medium forest green while the a/b color in the middle is a yellowish … Continue reading
Common Yellow Green Oval#202
A medium bright oval with a common classic color of yellowish green. It is eye clean and weighs .88 carats. Bruce
Can a Yellow be Cold, no! I Am Green Round#1083
The transition between yellow and green is a variable one with people. Lighting also makes a major impact on whether the tourmaline looks greenish or not. Then I look at the box and check the stone away from the … Continue reading
A Yellow with Touch of Green Oval#1079
This tourmaline has a pretty “normal” color. There really isn’t that much green in there, but just a little is enough for it to step down from the yellow heights. Its medium dark tone level does not stop it from … Continue reading
Celery juice in a tourmaline emerald cut.#1018
Celery juice was squeezed out of me when I saw this tourmaline. Now I know it is a tourmaline, but this is a jester moment. I would definitely think that this was a beryl if I didn’t know better. … Continue reading
A yellow green IceT droplet#1012
A delicate wisp of yellow green and a Hi O Silver will get this bright clean very pastel droplet pledge on the trail to being a star in the western sky. This standard round brilliant needs you to be … Continue reading
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An Oval Mixer of yellowish green and gold with a touch of brown.#1003
This oval will have to be called a yellow, but its dichroic nature keeps the stone dancing between flashes of greenish yellow and golden all with a touch of brown. I am a true supporter of yellowish tourmaline, but … Continue reading
Round with sliced pie placement of gold and green.#992
This standard round brilliant makes me smile. It takes me back to my very early days on the internet when I had found a dealer who cut some tourmaline down the long axis of smaller alluvial pebbles. I asked … Continue reading
Ring size Yellow Green with great crystal.#963
Now yellow green in tourmaline is not greatly prized. In higher tone values it is probably one of the more common colors with tourmaline. It might even rate right in there with medium light pinks for being everyday material. … Continue reading
A yellow green, a good after dinner mint#905
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
Yellow Green with a brown cast, Large round#901
Over the years that I have cut tourmaline, this is the only one that I purchased preformed (for greatness?). When you’re trying to get the widest collection of color in tourmaline, you have to seek out exceptional pieces that … Continue reading