9.05 ct. Blue Tourmaline
Color: Very Dark Blue
Clarity: Eye Clean
Origin: Nigeria
Cut: Rectangular Step
Treatments: None
Measurements: 13.5 x 10.3 mm
An interesting Tourmaline showing one of the most astonishingly blue bodycolors we have ever seen in in the species. If you are familiar with this material, you will immediately know its one downfall - it is extremely dark in tone. You may in facet mistake it for faceted ‘schorl’, or black Tourmaline, in regular light - it is that dark. It is somewhat surprising then to see the actual blue with strong light - it is possible it may lighten up with a recut, but the proportions and polish are good as-is, so perhaps not. Either way, it is quite fascinating, and not particularly expensive for a stone of this size and clarity.