6.16 ct. Tanzanian Moonstone
Color: Colorless
Clarity: Eye Clean
Origin: Tanzania
Cut: Freeform Step
Treatments: None
Measurements: 22.3 x 8.1 mm
Absolutely some of the finest facet grade Tanzanian Moonstone that we have run across. Most of these, while having a nice silver-blue flash, are very milky, to the point of being just semi-transparent; the kind of material that is more suited to cabs. This fine and large example is both fully transparent and gemmy as well as retaining that wonderful adularescence. This is actually an older stone that was cut decades ago as a collector’s piece, as opposed to any new production. The really only comparable gems we have seen are the Austrian ones, however those always have a white or silvery sheen, always without the element of blue that we have here. Great size and precision cut.