WEIGHT: .65 Cts.
CUT: Fancy Round
DIMENSIONS: 6.10 mm
ORIGIN: Tanzania
COLOR: Green and Orangy Golden
CLARITY: Very Good+ (Eye Clean)
TREATMENT: None
CUT BY: Dan
PRICE (U.S. Dollars): Make Offer
COMMENTS: I cut this stone thinking it was a chrysoberyl, but it appears to have too high of a refractive index and a very low specific gravity (weight). The RI appears to be around 1.777 unless I'm not getting a good reading and it is in excess of the 1.82 my refractometer can measure up to. The stone also has a color shift from more greenish in daylight to more orangy under incandescent, and, if that's not enough, it is dichroic and shows green around the edges with more of the orangy golden color in the middle. If it were bigger, I might send it off to a gem lab and have it identified, but at .65 carats, I doubt it's worth the investment. Also, the hardness during cutting seemed reasonably high...somwhere around a 7 on the mohs scale most likely.
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